Follow Ifton Heath school closure meeting - as it happened

Parents packed Ifton Heath Primary School in St Martins tonight and we covered the meeting LIVE with our Twitter updates.

Shropshire Council has proposed the closure of the primary school at its current site on the Overton Road and relocating the infant and junior school children to new premises on the site of the current Rhyn Park Secondary School and Performing Arts College on the Weston Rhyn side of St Martins.

Reporter Sue Austin tweeted live from the meeting from 630pm tonight on the @StarOswestry Twitter account. See her updates here:

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tweeting from Ifton Heath Primary School meeting over Shropshire School organisation

Parents left waiting in playground and school corridor as meeting between council officials and school governors finishes late

meeting gets underway 6.40pm proposal to create all through school for St Martins outlined by David Taylor director childrens services

Mr Taylor says all Ifton Heath staff would transfer to new all through school on Rhyn Park site with no redundancies

Villager Neil Graham says no reason given for closure of Ifton Heath. is it a way of putting a sticking plaster on Rhyn Park School?

One parent told repeatedly not to interrupt and shout out as feelings rise in the room

parents say Ifton Heath is a good school with good buildings and no problem over numbers it should not be sacrificed to save Rhyn Park

concern that three year olds will be on same site as teenagers excluded from neighbouring schools sent to rhyn park to study.

mum praises Rhyn Park for links with Ifton which convinced her daughter to want to go there but says schools should stay separate.

parents ask why council is trying to break something that isnt broken. Ifton is a good school.

David Taylor urged to visit Ifton Heath during school day to see how good it is - he says he is very likely to do so.

applause as council urged to drop ridiculous proposal for all through school to concentrate on fixing Rhyn Park problems & raising numbers

meeting's impromtu vote shows no one in favour of proposals for all through school for St Martins. meeting closes at 8.05pm