PARENTS have been invited to a meeting about the future of their children’s education in Huddersfield.
Four groups are bidding to run a new school on the site of Fartown High.
The co-educational school will serve 1,200 pupils from Birkby, Bradley, Deighton, Fartown, Fixby, Hillhouse and Sheepridge.
Four organisations are bidding for the right to run the new school – Wakefield Diocese of the Church of England; Holmfirth High, London-based E-ACT and Lilac Sky Schools from Essex.
Bruce Hanson from Bromley Road in Birkby is rallying people to back the Holmfirth High bid.
He has organised a public meeting at Birkby Community Centre at Wasp Nest Road at 6.30pm on Wednesday.
Mr Hanson believes Holmfirth High, whose headteacher Andrew Williams took the reins at Fartown last year, is best placed to run the new school.
He said: “Holmfirth has already been working with Fartown High for over a year. Fartown staff, pupils and the unions are content with this.
“I believe if Holmfirth wins the bid, our children will get a better education and the parents and community will be involved in a more meaningful way.”
Kirklees Council’s Cabinet will decide in the next few months which group should have the right to set up the new school.
