IN A move which will bring significant benefits to the children and young people of North Cornwall, seven local schools in the Bude area are proposing to become foundation schools and jointly set up a co-operative learning trust to be known as Bude Communities' Schools' Trust.

The seven schools — Bude Infant School, Bude Junior School, Budehaven Community School, Jacobstow County Primary School, Kilkhampton Junior and Infant School, Stratton Primary School and Whitstone Community Primary School — are proposing the co-operative trust model, which links schools together, using mutually co-operative principles.

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