`New' village school is a star attraction

Jun 17 2003 By Brigid Shaw, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Parents were delighted with the transformation.

Mrs Jayne Clayton, whose children Jake, nine, and Demy, six, both attend the school, said: "It's lovely, but it has needed livening up and bringing in line with other schools.

"But Jake isn't in a new classroom so he isn't as impressed as Demy!"

Fiona Robinson's 10-year-old son James Atkinson is a pupil at the school, which was also attended by her grandparents, Jack and Doris Bramall.

She said: "It's fabulous. You can't tell it's actually new."

Nicola Eastwood, whose son Thomas, 11, is at the school and mother Lynda Swift, a former pupil, said the school roll was down to around 12 in 1978.

"Then they started building the new housing and numbers rose. I think the extension looks great," she said.

Chairman of governors Mrs Veronica High said the school now wanted to complete its revamp by creating a mezzanine floor above the school hall to create a new classroom.