'Don't pass our pupil's problems on to English-medium schools'.PARENTS of children at the Welsh-medium primary school at the centre of the Whitchurch education reorganisation Noun 1. reorganisation - the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet row have demanded Cardiff council The County Council of City and County of Cardiff (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Caerdydd) is the governing body for Cardiff, one of the Principal Areas of Wales. The council consists of 75 councillors, representing 29 electoral wards. addresses their need for space without dividing their community. The council has pledged to increase the size of the cramped Ysgol Melin Gruffydd, and combine Whitchurch's English-medium Eglwys Newydd and Eglwys Wen primary schools. The proposal formore space and two-form entry at Ysgol Melin Gruffydd has been welcomed by parents at the crowded Welsh-medium school. But parents at the Englishmedium schools fear the cramped situation could simply be transferred onto English-medium education if Eglwys Newydd and Eglwys Wen are merged. Some residents are concerned the proposals are driving a wedge between the English and Welsh-speaking parents in the community. Non Tudur Boore, a mother of two children at the Welshmedium primary school, said: "Change is vital for Ysgol Melin Gruffydd but all Whitchurch children, whether educated through themedium of English or Welsh, deserve the best possible schools. "We, as parents of children at Melin Gruffydd, certainly wouldn't want to transfer the difficult circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or faced by our children on to others." A campaign called Jam Packed has been launched to demand more space at Ysgol Melin Gruffydd. Its chairman, dad-of-three Arfon Jones, has claimed Cardiff council has not been using up-to-date data at its public meetings about school reorganisation in Whitchurch. He said: "The figures used for their presentation dated back to September 2007, showing 28% of Ysgol Melin Gruffydd pupils coming from outside of the catchment area catchment area or drainage basin, area drained by a stream or other body of water. The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage . The picture has changed dramatically since then andwe're urging the council to release the latest figures. "Our own research shows that 80% of Melin Gruffydd's 408 pupils are from within the catchment area, and it's time Cardiff City Council released the very latest figures. "Not doing so is misleading the people of Whitchurch and raising doubts in some people'sminds about the need for a two form entry school." |
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