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Deputy Matt Fallaize has responded to concerns raised by staff at Le Murier school about the current plans for the future of secondary education.
The statement aimed to address the staff's worries, and also said Deputy Fallaize was eager to continue discussing staff's ideas going forwards.
To read about the staff's statement, click here.
Deputy Fallaize said: "During the debate on the future of secondary and post-16 education, the States decided that Le Murier, Le Rondin and Les Voies should continue providing for students with special educational needs as they do now. While not directly included within the reforms as a result of that States decision, the Committee acknowledges that Le Murier in particular shares a close bond with the current St Sampson’s High School which the Executive Leadership Team intend to develop further once Victor Hugo College is operational.
"We appreciate that students across the schools benefit from shared facilities at Baubigny, including the swimming pool. We are determined to ensure that there are not fewer opportunities for Le Murier students to benefit from the shared facilities in the years ahead and indeed that all students at Baubigny have reasonable access to high quality facilities. We have tried to make that clear throughout but clearly some staff at Le Murier need to be reassured on this point and we will ask officers and school leaders to do this.
"Traffic challenges exist but are far from insurmountable with modest changes in travel choices and some infrastructure improvements. We cannot support designing our education system primarily around not wanting to see any changes in transport arrangements, but in any event we are confident that parents and students at Le Murier will not in any way need to be disadvantaged in terms of transport.
"We are due to meet union colleagues imminently and as we have said we are eager to continue discussing their members’ representations and as far as possible we will be flexible and pragmatic while respecting the need to remain within the policy and financial boundaries set by the States when they directed the introduction of the two 11-18 colleges in January 2018 and September 2019."
Pictured top: Le Murier school and Deputy Matt Fallaize. (Image from Le Murier's website)
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