{"id":592347,"date":"2025-11-25T07:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592347\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:17:17","slug":"dfe-rejects-plans-to-merge-two-bristol-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592347\/","title":{"rendered":"DfE rejects plans to merge two Bristol primary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The government has rejected plans to amalgamate two primary schools in Bristol.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cathedral Schools Trust had hoped to merge Hotwells Primary and Cathedral Primary School, a move it said would &#8220;maximise resources&#8221; and ensure children would receive the &#8220;best education possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parents from a campaign group called Save Hotwells Primary said they were &#8220;delighted&#8221; with the ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust&#8217;s chiefs said the application to make the change was made following a period of extensive consultation and leaders would now work with the Department for Education (DfE) and other partners to decide what happens next. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government has rejected plans to amalgamate two primary schools in Bristol. The Cathedral Schools Trust had hoped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-592347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115609117983585530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}