School closures: Mum’s appeal to minister

Oct 3 2008 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Mum’s appeal to minister

A WORRIED mum has asked the Government to save her local school.

Marie Morris wants Kirklees Council to scrap plans to close Castle Hall and send pupils to Mirfield Free Grammar instead.

Now she has asked schools minister Ed Balls to help.

Mrs Morris’s nine-year-old daughter and five-year-old son attend Crowlees Junior and Infants, one of Castle Hall’s feeder schools.

She said: “I would be happy for my children to go to Castle Hall, but I don’t want them to go to Mirfield Free Grammar with 2,000 other children. It’s just too big.”

Mrs Morris emailed Mr Balls earlier this week asking him to intervene.