Resolve to save school 'stronger than ever before'

CAMPAIGNERS SAY CHILDREN HAVE 'BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH' SINCE COVID

- By AUSTEN SHAKESPEARE

Hazlewood Community Primary School in Wideopen

THE campaign to protect a Wide open school from closure will continue, with the passion "stronger than before", following a council decision to push ahead with plans to merge the institution.

Last week, North Tyneside Council announced the results of a six-week consultation on the future of education throughout the area. The plans included the closure of Hazlewood Primary and its merger with neighbouring Greenfields Primary.

At the conclusion of the consultation, while Monkseaton Middle and Langley Primary schools have been saved from immediate closure to explore "viable alternatives", the original proposals on Hazlewood are set to enter the second stage. The school has also been troubled by "weak and brittle" concrete, following a series of inspections across a number of schools in February 2024.