The new school year has started with national headlines about primary school children squeezed into over-crowded classrooms and the spread of temporary classrooms.
With good planning Wiltshire has escaped this crisis. Every primary school child in the county has found a place in a normal class.
Pewsey primary school has opened a newly built classroom this term – which is as much about planning ahead as for current numbers.
St Mary’s in Marlborough now has 155 pupils, but could take 180.
Savernake’s St Katharine’s filled eight of its twelve available first year places. To give improved teaching to a class of over thirty, it is teaching part of the 4,5 and 6 year class in the school hall during the mornings.
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