Closure Tynyrheol Primary School, Llangeinor

Closure Tynyrheol primary school, Llangeinor
Bridgend CBC is expecting a shortfall of £50 million in finances, surely it should be looking at cost savings such as bringing good quality brick solid buildings up to standard, especially if they have been modernised with double glazing and full central heating. All that is required is to provide dis-abled persons access which can be easily achieved.
If Bridgend CBC would like the option of a new building, even though it will have no money, the building should be located where it is easily accessible to the school children and residents of Llangeinor.
To save money Bridgend CBC could employ an overall head teacher based in Betws, Brynmenyn or Bryncethin, which would help with staffing costs..
The objections against the closure of Tynyrheol primary school are as follows:- There is no public transport service between Betws and Llangeinor, and with a shortfall in finances there will be none.
There are fourteen pupils at Tynyrheol primary school who receive free school meals. If any of these children have an accident or are taken ill in the new school, it is unlikely that their carer’s could afford the bus fare to go to Bridgend and from Bridgend to Betws to collect their child. Certainly they could not afford a taxi fare to bring the child home.
The Highways Department of Bridgend CBC has confirmed that the 1.7 miles distance between the two schools has no safe pedestrian way for the children to walk to school. Therefore it would be necessary for school buses to be provided.
At the time when the Council is trying to cut costs by keeping transport costs to a minimum.
The LEA representatives state that the education of the children would be improved because of additional provisions at the new school, this is not true. Because children from Llangeinor would need to catch a school bus, they are unlikely to benefit from these facilities.
There are approximately forty pupils at Tynyrheol primary school who take advantage of the free breakfast facilities at their present school; these pupils are unlikely to be able to take advantage of any facilities if a new school building was located in Betws because of transport problems. Free breakfast facilities which is a Welsh Assembly initiative, and at Tynyrheol primary school has been proven to be beneficial, not only to the children’s health but the children are more alert during lessons.
Tynyrheol primary school at present runs a series of successful after school clubs which are regularly attended by twenty to twenty five children at each session. These children will lose out if they are dependent on a school bus service.
Children attending Nursery aged three upwards for two terms during the school year are part time, concerns are raised about safety supervision of these children if there is a school bus service, provided for them, which is additional unnecessary transport costs. These children for two terms during the school year are at the school on a part time basis. Who will ensure the safety and transport of these children back to Llangeinor, if the Council is seeking to cut costs?
Bridgend CBC LEA has submitted monetary figures to the Cabinet of Bridgend CBC, and concerns have been raised about the integrity and correctness of these figures.
At the moment there is approximately seventy five to eighty pupils at the school.