A SCHOOL review panel will consider whether three small primary schools in south Ceredigion could be merged to create one school in three different locations, it has been agreed.

Ceredigion Council Cabinet members were asked to consider options to put before a review panel for the future of schools in Beulah, Cenarth, Llechryd and Trewen, with members of a scrutiny committee backing the closure of all four schools and the creation of a new area school.

But Cllr Lyndon Lloyd, whose Beulah ward includes three of the four schools, urged Cabinet members to put forward another option of closing Beulah, Cenarth and Trewen schools and instead forming a new school which would spread across the three current schools.

He said that would lead to one headteacher, one governing body and could lead to simplifying management of the schools.

Cllr Lloyd said: “I believe we need to sit down and be wise about this and then there won’t be great tension.

“What strikes me is that parents who bring their children to Beulah and Trewen are very loyal to these schools and we must have a conversation with them.

“You’d be very wise to leave that option on the table to look at. It is an option that has been raised by local parents who have not been tempted to take their children to Ysgol T Llew Jones or Ysgol Bro Teifi.”

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