It looks like the end of the line for Llanigon School. It's going to be closing at the end of the summer term in 2014, and the children will be transferred to Hay School - even though building work has not yet started on the new school.
The piece on the front page of the B&R says that there are only 14 pupils at the school now - when I was helping out with Followers for Llanigon Church in the hall (it was a Sunday School which met on Tuesdays, after school) there were far more children there. Myfanwy Alexander, the County Council cabinet member for schools, said that it is far more expensive to educate children at Llanigon than it is at Hay - £8,252 per pupil as opposed to £3,087 at Hay.
There's a strange comment in the B&R report, though - it seems there are no plans for a permanent head teacher at Hay School. The last headmaster has been ill, I believe, and Fiona Howard, the previous headmistress, has returned as acting head - but it seems strange that a school the size of Hay, with all the building work that's about to start, shouldn't have a permanent head teacher in charge.
I wonder what the plans are for Llanigon school building and the village hall that goes with it?
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