Appendix 1 Comments from Adult Response Form, in Full 1.1.1. Brynford C.P. School Appreciate money needs to be saved, which is why I have chosen option 3 & not option 1 (which in an ideal world I would have chosen). Rhos Helyg is not close enough to be considered for merger especially in respect of existing transport links. Option 3 is I think a decent compromise, as there is only a couple of miles between the 2 villages. There is potential for more & better facilities with a larger school but feel anything over 150 pupils will cause the greater personal & rural feel of the school to be lost. Option 3 is my preferred option, as I believe a larger school for Brynford & Lixwm students on Brynford site may bring some advantages such as better facilities with the advantage that it is still a small school. I think it will also give some stability for the future. However, I do not like option 2 - One area school on one site, whatsoever. Wherever the school is sited it would increase travel times for many of the children affected. It will create a very large school, which none of the parents affected at any of the schools have chosen for their children - they have hoped to send their children to a small rural school. Although I appreciate the Authority have to reduce costs, option 1, is my preferred option, however in support of the recommendations to maximise the best outcome - option 3 is the next best for us! Thank you Please replace the online submission I grew up in Ellesmere Port and have only had experience of town schools which house 300+ children. Since watching my children develop and grow in a rural based school. I now understand the importance of keeping these school's. I understand in order to move forward option 3 is ideal, to allow these schools, pupils and staff to have a fantastic future. Realising that option 1 is not realistic option 3 is my preferred option to develop my childs education. It also created the minimum distruption Brynford is a very good school it's local community Its a very good school I have lived on the mountain all my life, I want my expectant child to be raised in a rural community, not with town influances at such an early age, I want to be able to walk to my local school, with school friends living in the local area. Rural areas need rural schools, with children knowing all the teachers names Option 1 would be my first choice, but if things have to change my preferred option is 3. I have live in the village all my life and went to the primary school myself, I have worked there for the past 20years and yes it would be nice to modernize the school but not to spoil the rural primary school that we offer in the village. Hopefully Option 3 would still offer a diversity education within a village rural primary school. Also consider the amount of extra traffic that would be coming though the village. I believe a merger between Brynford & Lixwm will be a positive move, larger class sizes than they currently have will be much better for transition to High School. My children are pupils at Brynford Primary school. We are not originally from the Brynford/Lixwm area but decided to put our children into Brynford Primary School some years ago based on the schools reputation and the fact that it was a small, rural school. For some time we transported our children for around 30 mins each way to get to the school , before finally moving house closer to the school a couple of years ago. We take our childrens education and well being very seriously and consider the provision at Brynford is ideal, with it's small community focus. We do not wish to see any major chnages to this and should that be the case we would have to consider taking our children out of the school and looking for alternative school elsewhere. I understand that some parents have already started to look around at other schools as the current uncertaintity is causing major moral issues at these schools. Should a single 'merged' school or the merging of Brynford and Lixwm schools be the chosen option, I have no doubt that a vast majority of parents will remove their children from these schools and look for alternatives. Both of these options are not in the best interest of the children and appear to be purely budget driven. We moved from Leicester to brynford in 2013 to give our children a better education as in Leicester the state schools are largely under achieving. We chose Brynford as the Estyn reports and results were very strong and the schools ethos was a big factor in our relocation. My children have settled well and progressed over the past 3 years at a rapid rate due to the excellent teaching and communication between the staff and the pupils. Should option 1 not come into play option 2 would be our secondary choice albeit not our ideal choice. Option 3 would be a definite no as to me this would resemble a state school with the amount of places which would be needed to amalgamate all 3 schools. If we had of wanted this for our children we would of chosen a larger school in the first place or not relocated. It is disgraceful that our children are being put in this position and questioned on what they want when they don't understand the factors involved. It is the parents responsibility to inform our children what is happening when we feel ready not the councils or the school governors. As a parent I feel such change could be detrimental in our children's education if option 2 goes ahead. The parking for our school is far from ample as it is and the council have yet to show any plans which include our children's safety in this area. if as suggested by a council official at the Lixwm meeting a drop of area was included my response would be that our children are not safe near that road without supervision and therefore oppose this idea that children should just be let out of their vehicles to walk into school alone I for one would not do this and will always walk my children into school so I know they are safe and a teacher has seen them before leaving these are things that the council need to seriously consider when approaching any decisions as safety is paramount. I am now working in a 21st century school and can see that this is the way forward for the children. The facilities are amazing. There are more children fo make friends with of their own age unlike small village schools. My god daughter attends Brynford school and is happy there. Merging with Rhos Helyg would not work as it would mean a 28 mile round trip for my friend to drop her children off and pick them up. Merging Lixwm and Brynford would be better as they are close in location and a lot of the children have friends in both areas. Sadly I believe keeping the school in Brynford would be the best option as the parking access is better and there is more land surrounding the school to use for possible expansion. I will be sad to see the school in Lixwm go as I think the children learn more in a smaller village school and it is good to see so many parents walking their children to school through the village. It is a shame that we have to make this choice as I believe Flintshire should be making cuts elsewhere before the education of our young people is attacked in this way. As a resident in a street which has 8 young families it is sad that they will potentially have to disrupt the childrens education like that. Also I live in a shared ownership house which was marketed as local homes for local people. Due to the legalities of this scheme it is already proving difficult to sell our homes. Once the local school is removed we will lose an important marketing point for our homes and mean that our homes are even more difficult to sell. Brynford school site is suitable to merge with lixum Close Rhos helyg and Lixwm and make Brynford school bigger with portable classrooms and increase the playing field and parking by using the site behind. Rural schools are important and should be saved in any way they can! It would not be fair to close both Brynford and Lixwm and expect the children to travel to Rhos Helyg. We need to keep the rural school for the rural child and the community. We need to keep the rural school I think it's disgusting that the council would potentially up root out children like this. They are happy and thriving where they are in fantastic schools. Local, smaller schools that suit the personalities of our village children. The welfare of the children is being totally over looked. Disgraceful.. Removing rural history. They should be ashamed. I am supporting Brynford as its a fantastic school and my neice is there . It would be a shame if this closed a loss to the commumity . It's a great school Best school yrs of my life and made many lifelong friends there Brynford School is a popular school and has been in the community for many years.