When Phil Taylor took over as head of our school, the schools future started to look promising, the
school was becoming part of the community again, below are newspaper clippings of the final years of our school.
Ballot school stays open-and thats a promise
(MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 19-10-95)
EDUCATION
chiefs have promised at least six years of life to a comprehensive school they threatened with closure only four months
ago.
The pledge to parents and governors
at Wythenshawes South Manchester High is designed to persuade them not to back an opt-out bid.
And the governors will
decide tonight whether to recommend parents to vote against a bid for grant-maintained status in a ballot next month.
The ballot was called by the governors after the city education commitee accepted a report advocating the closure of a Wythenshawe
school to get rid of surplus places.
Although the report by education chief Roy Jobson did not pick out South Manchester
, the school was clearly targeted.
Governors decided to
respond to the threat by trying to opting out. But the report has now been scrapped .
Manchester has no grant-maintained secondary
schools and only one primary.And the threat of another bid was enough to spark a climdown.
It is understood the five year guarentee
from next September has been given by Mr Jobson in writing.
Governers were reluctent to speculate on
the outcome of tonights meeting, but one said "We shall consider our position carefully"
"The report which went to the education
committee in July made people very angry"
