Teachers are campaigning to turn an Oxford school due to close this summer into a nursery and community centre.

Oxfordshire County Council has decided to shut Headington Quarry First School this summer after 139 years because too few pupils are enrolled for September.

The building is owned by the Oxford Diocese of the Church of England, but it has not yet decided what to do with the site.

Headteacher Catherine Rule is supporting Headington Nursery School's bid to relocate from its premises in nearby Windmill Kimber Crescent.

She said: Over the long life of the school there have been many, many changes to the age groups taught here and we are now very excited by the consultations that the LEA and the diocese are having with Headington Nursery School, which is desperately seeking a new and bigger site.

"It would be lovely to think that this building, so suitable for young children, could continue to provide education in this community for many more years."

Nursery headteacher Sue Vermes said: "We would be able to offer longer sessions. It's a bigger site than ours and we want to take more children for the whole day.

"We could also use it to give more help to working parents and extend services to families and community groups that want to use the space.

"We could also have adult education and a creche and use it for health visitors and a surgeries.

"The area needs these kinds of facilities and we are working hard to get them."

Spokesmen for Oxfordshire County Council and the diocese confirmed they had been contacted by the nursery, but as yet no decision had been made on how to dispose of the school site.