Save Clyst Vale Community College.

Thanks to Graham Parnell for drawing my attention to this..

Devon Education Authority want to cut the 7 form intake at Clyst Vale Community College to 4 thus forcing parents to send children to the 'new' Exeter schools which are PFI funded and currently undersuscribed. This would lead to Clyst Vale CC being downgraded, losing its sixth form, the only one within reach of Exeter and would inevitably lead to redundancies within the college. The situation is made more serious by plans to delay the devo;opment of the new town of Cranbrook where a replacement for Clyst Vale CC was to have been sited.

In response, a group of ex pupils, prominent amongst them a former Silvertonian, Ross Bibey, have launched a campaign to help save Clyst Vale CC. They have launched a Facebook group which can be found at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7880371087

I was one of the original pupils when the then, Broadclyst County Secondary School opened in 1960. Whether as Broadclyst County Secondary, or Clyst Vale Community College this scool has been an excellent centre of secondary education for the best part of half a century and has been, and remains a vital educational and community resource for this part of East and mid Devon. Generations of Silvertonians have been educated there and I hope that all who have passed through its doors down the years will now join the fight to retain the school in its current form.