Hope CE Primary School

Shire hall protesters  

On the 30^th, January 08 a group of primary schools, due of closing gathered together outside the Shire hall to protest about they’re schools being closed. We hopped on the bus at 9:00am and arrived at the Shire hall at 9:30, there were two buses for Hope school A and B. We took are banners out of the boot and walked across the road chanting songs about our school. There was a huge crowd of schools dotted all around the place in they’re school groups. Schools were moving round to try and get near the cameras and get into the building. Some people were quite far behind. Some people from Hope got a chance to go into the building. A few of Hope pupils spotted the newsround chap, Lizo, and got a glance on the camera. There were lots of security police shouting to be quiet through a homophone. People dressed up as badgers were shouting to not be quiet and keep on chanting, it made us giggle. Soon we had to walk to the front to hear the decision they had chosen. It was quite nerve wracking to wait. You could hear people hooraying that they’re school would be open a while longer than before. We were at the back so we couldn’t hear very well and they repeated what they said. Then we heard that our school was one of them that would stay open a bit longer. We were all cheering because we knew we had won the first part of the battle but we still had a big war to fight. People had signs saying “beep if you support us” for the cars to read. Then we got on the bus, and then we went back to school.  

By Elly P and Dana L.