Hackney Education is proposing to close Colvestone due to dropping enrolment across the borough.
Below are some key points you can use in Hackney Council’s consultation form to oppose the closure.
The consultation closes on Sunday 16 July, so this is our last chance to show how much the school means to you and your community – tell them how you feel.
The online form can be found here
or here: bit.ly/hackney-schools-consultation
And below are some suggested key points you can use to complete the form. Tell Hackney Council what a loss it would be!
It’s really important the Council hear from everyone who knows the school – families, local residents and the wider community.
The more varied arguments and opinions objecting to the closure, the better.
Key objection points to use in your consultation form
• Colvestone is at the heart of the Ridley Road and Dalston community, and removing a school and its children from this area will have a detrimental impact on the local area.
• This is an ill-considered and damaging move for children, parents and carers in Dalston. As one of the only non-religious, non-academy, non-free schools in the area, it should remain open to offer families the choice to be part of a small, close-knit community school – run by the local education authority.
• Colvestone is a unique primary school offering children an opportunity to develop and thrive in a single-form entry, community-focussed environment.
• Colvestone is in the centre of the Dalston Plan, which includes commits to building 600 new homes, including 200 affordable family homes. Shutting Colvestone - the closest school to this development - is a short-sighted action, that will negatively impact the community.
• Colvestone Primary School is central to a pioneering proposal to turn Colvestone Crescent into 21st Century Street, Hackney’s first permanent play street. A long tree-lined pedestrian walkway with lots of new plantings, ecology gardens, and innovative play spaces. A key part of the 21st Century Street is that it’s located next to a primary school. Explicitly, without Colvestone school, that plan makes less sense.
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Whatever you choose to say – thank you for supporting our campaign to keep Colvestone Primary School open.
It takes a village to save a school like Colvestone.