The gates at Moulsecoomb Primary were padlocked to stop people from The Pioneer Academy entering the building. They were due to visit the school yesterday but when they arrived at the site at about 7.45am they found entrances had been bolted shut by campaigners. Parents and campaigners block the gates of Moulsecoomb Primary School All side entrances to the school in The Highway, Brighton, were padlocked with directions to parents and children to enter by the main gate. The main gate was protected by about 30 campaigners and parents who were refusing to let academy staff in. The police were called amid the stand-off, which went on for several hours, but there were conflicted reports about who made the call.
THE MAJORITY of the city’s primary schools are to remain closed tomorrow, The Argus can reveal. Green Party Brighton and Hove City Council leader Phelim Mac Cafferty wrote to headteachers and advised them not to reopen as coronavirus infections continue to soar. That was despite the Prime Minister’s advice today that primary schools in Brighton and Hove should stay open and that schools are safe. But within hours of Cllr Mac Cafferty sending a letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson over closures, headteachers sent emails to parents to tell them pupils will be kept out of classrooms and will be learning from home.