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National Association for Small Schools
Barbara Taylor - Secretary
1978 - Supporting Small Schools - 2008
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Welcome
to the National Association for Small Schools website. NASS is a campaigning
organisation. We advise and support small schools at risk of closure,
lobby on behalf of small schools and humanity of scale in education and
promote the virtues of small schools and known best practice. |
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| If you are looking for a small school for your child or start a small school you may find advice and information at the Human Scale Education website. Our membership represents professional, community and individual belief in small schools. | ||
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Latest NewsWholesale Closures, banned by the Government in 1998, have returned to haunt the rural educational landscape. More than a dozen LEAs in England and Wales propose widespread closures of schools with under 110 pupils or four, even seven classes. At best they promise federation to create large schools and NASS warns that federation invariably proves a slow route to eventual closure. The Government U-turn shows in heavy squeezing of pupil funding, generous building grants and advice to LEAs that they should not have too many schools, an entirely new mantra, never formally announced. It accompanies a major extension to a national programme required of all LEAs of an Extended Services concept originally seen as filling empty urban space.....unless LEAs are choosing to extend the concept itself. See NASS Press Release January 28th. Hadley Community in Telford joins Darlington Village as a new all-age school with community facilities. Such schools at their best use the flexibility and attitudes long found in the best small school practice and so may be used as a reason to close many excellent existing small schools serving their own local communities just as effectively. NASS urges vigilance! For more news items please read our current newsletter. |
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You are invited to join N.A.S.S. and share our work. You do not have to be a school threatened with closure. N.A.S.S. exists for all small schools. N.A.S.S. is both a professional association and a community organisation with membership across all walks of life. If you value a secure and effective education for young children, if you believe in small schools as part of community life, N.A.S.S. needs your commitment and your help. Join us. |
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The NASS Charter promotes the work of smaller schools, those with 100 or fewer pupils. NASS believes smaller schools offer ideal conditions for young children's learning. Personal attention leads to a sense of identity and a belief that effort is worthwhile. Loyal, committed teachers work as a team, with the children staying well on task. Small schools are caring places, close to home, family and local community. Read More. *New NASS paper on small schools sustaining quality in society. Read More. |  |
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