Consultation: Proposal to ‘Merge’ Walbrook Nursery School and Pear Tree Infant School

Published: 13 September 2023

Walbrook Nursery School and Pear Tree Infant School have been operating as federated schools for many years. This means that they share the same Headteacher and Governing Body but have separate financial budgets.

Following Derby City Council’s successful bid to the Government’s School Rebuilding Programme, it has been confirmed that Pear Tree Infant School will be rebuilt. The Department for Education (DfE) is leading on the school rebuild project, working together in close partnership with Pear Tree Infant School and Derby City Council. Very early indications are that the new school building may be completed by Summer 2025.

The Governing Body of the Pear Tree and Walbrook Nursery Federation has approached the Council with a request to consider formally merging the infant and nursery school, to create a single school, within the brand-new Pear Tree Infant School building. A consultation proposal has, therefore, been developed to form a single infant and nursery school for children aged 2-7.

If the proposal moves forward, a single infant and nursery school would be established from 1 September 2025, subject to the completion of the new school building, with the children attending Walbrook Nursery School at this time moving to the newly built Pear Tree Infant School.

Further information on the proposal is available on Derby City Council’s consultation website, which can be viewed by clicking on the following link:

https://letstalk.derby.gov.uk/

The closing date for comments on the proposal is Tuesday, 24 October 2023

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