Issue - meetings

Received a report from the Corporate Director of Children’s Services on the proposed expansion of Roding Primary School by providing a new three-form entry school building on a separate site in Cannington Road, Dagenham, with effect from 1 September 2010. 

Noted that interim arrangements were made with effect from September 2008 to increase the intake for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 utilising this site and this proposal would, in effect, formalise that arrangement as well as introducing additional forms for Year 2 to Year 6 pupils, bringing the standard admission number to 144 pupils. 

The Corporate Director confirmed that the proposed increase is considered to be appropriate in the current circumstances but agreed to look into whether further expansion on the site would be feasible in the future, given the land available at the site and the ever-increasing demand for school places particularly in the primary age range.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council in achieving its Community Priority of “Inspired and Successful” and in fulfilling its duty to provide every child in the borough with a school place, to agree the formal expansion of Roding Primary School from a two-form to a five-form entry Primary School with effect from 1 September 2010 through the utilisation of the Cannington Road site.