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This from From Ellie Wood. Currently in Year 5 at Wroxall Primary School, wondering about year 6. Ed
I wrote a letter to share with you all, to help save my school and say how I and all of my friends feel.
I have been at Wroxall school for four years now. I really love my school. I shared this with everyone at the protest we went to on Saturday in Newport.
I moved to the Isle of Wight five years ago, I left a school that I was so happy in, I was there since I was in reception. Moving to the Island was a new big adventure for me and my family for a new start after Covid.
I tried two schools in Ventnor first and I really struggled because they didn’t feel like my old school, where I was happy and my teachers were my friends.
I got scared of going to school on the Island because I was being bullied, it gave me anxiety. I felt like the teachers didn’t really care about me. It made me cry sometimes.
My family decided to home school me for a little while because we didn’t know where else I could go.
I found Wroxall and I loved it and I still do. Because it was the only school I met on the Island that treated me like my Mainland school. I am so happy at Wroxall and so is my little sister. We want to stay here.
I am going into Year 6 in September and my family are trying to see where I will go if my school closes.
There isn’t anywhere. My little sister could go to one, but not with me. And my mommy won’t be able to take us to different schools. I am losing my friends now from school because they are scared they will have nowhere to go either if you close my school.
What are we going to do? I can’t go back to the school that made me hate school when I was little. I am losing my friends who I could be going to high school with where we can support each other.
I would like when I start my high school Mr Price will be my teacher. Because he was my friend when he was my teacher at Wroxall and now he’s a teacher at the high school I want to go to, all my teachers are my friend at Wroxall and my sisters. They give me comfort and support.
My learning skills have got better after all my issues before and I don’t want to go back into home learning, but if I have nowhere to go, I have no choice. I like being with my friends and my teachers.
I like seeing my sister happy with her friends. And collecting our Dojo points and taking Huggy bear home for the weekend when we are good. Having Hot chocolate with Miss Hopkinson and her hugs because she is happy to see us.
This closure is really unfair and my school is the best to me. Please don’t take it away from me. Don’t take it away from all of us.
