A proposal to close a small rural primary school with less than 30 pupils has been dropped following a consultation and efforts by the school's governing body to find new ways of making it sustainable. Last September, following a consultation in June and July 2021, North Clifton Primary School was given until June by Nottinghamshire County Council to find ways of increasing pupil numbers or risk closure.
Since September 2021, the governors at the school, which is rated as "good" by Ofsted, have refurbished their community room with the support of the late councillor Maureen Dobson's financial contributions - combined with voluntary contributions of finance and labour from the community. This has allowed a breakfast and after school club to be opened, which is now attended by an average of six pupils per day.
Mrs Dobson, who represented Collingham before her death in November 2021, championed the school at last September's meeting and said that it had three new governors and that Newark and Sherwood District Council had agreed to look at encouraging potential house building in the area.
