Cheaper to expand Newburgh
Your report suggests that simply building seven new classrooms within the Aylesford complex is all that is required. However, primary schools have to be secure so that youngsters cannot escape and put themselves in harm’s way, and thus a separate unit altogether will need to be built within the grounds of Aylesford.
This, presumably, is how the proposed cost of £2.7 million - £385,000 per classroom – is arrived at. In these days of government and council spending cuts, surely it would be much cheaper to expand nearby Newburgh Primary School from two to three-form entry.
Ron Gellért-Binnie, via email