Plans are underway to replace nursery provision from the 40-place Battlehill Nursery School in North Shields, which closed at the end of the summer term, with facilities at the primary school which is on the same site. A spokeswoman for North Tyneside Council said the closure was part of a council-wide move towards providing wraparound care. The former Battlehill First School, which took in five to nine-year-olds, is to be upgraded and extended to become Battlehill Primary School, taking in five- to 11-year-olds, with a new reception and nursery class as well as daycare for three-to four-year-olds. While the new premises are being built children are to be housed in mobile classrooms. 'We have been through a major consultation exercise, which has been fairly uncontroversial because there will be 100 per cent nursery provision and no loss of anything,' the spokeswoman added.
Plans are underway to replace nursery provision from the 40-place Battlehill Nursery School in North Shields, which closed at the end of the summer term, with facilities at the primary school which is on the same site. A spokeswoman for North Tyneside Council said the closure was part of a council-wide move towards providing wraparound care. The former Battlehill First School, which took in five to nine-year-olds, is to be upgraded and extended to become Battlehill Primary School, taking in five- to 11-year-olds, with a new reception and nursery class as well as daycare for three-to four-year-olds. While the new premises are being built children are to be housed in mobile classrooms. 'We have been through a major consultation exercise, which has been fairly uncontroversial because there will be 100 per cent nursery provision and no loss of anything,' the spokeswoman added.
