Under its Transforming Our Primary Schools proposals, the localauthority wants the Clervaux nursery school - one of four stand-alonenursery units in Jarrow - to merge with Jarrow Cross primary.
But acting head Ann Stevens said, 'We are very concerned that shouldnursery provision move to the primary school, it would no longer havethe high profile that it has in a stand-alone nursery. Nursery schoolsare few and far between, and research shows that the standard ofeducational attainment in them is higher than elsewhere.'
Plans to relocate the nursery to a primary school were first mooted morethan two years ago and were vigorously resisted by parents. If the newproposal is implemented, the nursery would close in September 2009.South Tyneside council said it would cost nearly 124,000 torepair and maintain the old building that houses the nursery.
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