Sir – I have recently become a community governor of Wolvercote Primary School, Wolvercote is still a genuine village with a strong sense of community and it thrives.

It is socially, racially and generationally mixed, socially harmonious and neighbourly.

Very important to it is the school. It has an excellent head and first-rate staff. Standards are good and it is clearly a happy school. It is our school and Wolvercote parents want and expect their children to go there. I am given to understand that 16 children within the catchment, many from the village itself, will not be able to join in September. Parents are dismayed.

Family logistics getting children to and from school which particular family circumstances often make quite complicated, will be additionally fraught.

For some the situation is nearly impossible. What is being proposed is unacceptable. Parents would be grateful to have a full explanation of this poor planning which appears to be county-wide.

I urge the council, officers and councillors, to try again and measure up constructively to their responsibilities. They owe this to our children.

Although short-term actions may be necessary, the community expects to see this in the context of a thought-through, longer-term solution.

Seamus Rainbird, Wolvercote