PARENTS, staff and governors will have their say on plans for a radical shake-up of three schools.
Kirklees Council’s Cabinet yesterday approved consultation on an ‘all through’ school for Rawthorpe, educating children from four to 16.
The plan would see Rawthorpe High School combine with Rawthorpe Junior School and Rawthorpe St James C of E Infant and Nursery School.
The new Rawthorpe Learning Campus would open in September next year.
It would include a library, training and health facilities, crèche, before and after school care and adult education provision.
Parents, staff and governors will be consulted on the plans between September 17 and November 2.
Public meetings are planned at St James School on September 25 and at the high school two days later.
Council leader Clr Robert Light urged people to go to the meetings.
He said: “I hope that parents, teachers and governors have their say on how the new system might work.”
Kirklees’s Cabinet will meet after the consultation has ended to decide whether to go forward with the plan.
The all-through proposal was one of seven options considered to halt a slide in pupil numbers.
Other choices included closing Rawthorpe High, setting up an independent academy and merging with Fartown High.
