My understanding a new school was to be built to replace the old school and in addition provide a secondary school for the pupils of Lewisham Bridge to attend.

The plan is/was to bus the children to another site for 2-3 years to another another site while the new school was built. This has been happening to a number of schools across the borough over the past 5 years as schools have been refurbed or rebuilt.

A new travellers site is being constructed at the former site of Watergate School, in Ladywell.

The 2007 OFSTED report for the school begins....

Overall the school had a Satisfactory Grade 3 rating .

For Personal development and well-being the school was said to be Outsanding with a Grade 1 rating.

For Quality of provision of Teaching and learning the school was Satifactory (Grade 3) but indicate not all lessons met that grade, the next grade down is Inadequate (Grade 4).

The new school would be taken under the wing of Prendegast School which has an excellent reputation and is oversubscribed to the tune of 10 applicants for each place.

It would appear parents don't want anything to do with Prendegast, I would have thought they'ed jump at the chance?

The NUT seems to slag of the Local Education Authority but wants Lewisham Bridge to remain as part of that system.

Then there are the usual suspects who see it as part of their class war to create the next generation of the underclass.