Moray Council to meet RAF Leuchars families

A DELEGATION from Moray Council’s education service will meet service families at RAF Leuchars tomorrow ahead of their move to RAF Lossiemouth later this year.

RAF Leuchars airbase, near St Andrews. Picture: Complimentary

Children of RAF personnel currently based at Leuchars will begin to enrol in schools in Elgin and Lossiemouth when squadrons of Typhoon aircraft begin transferring to the Moray air base in the summer.

The meeting in the community centre at the Fife air station will include a presentation by Lindsey Stanley, business support team manager for Moray’s education service. She will be accompanied by David Barnett, head teacher at Elgin Academy, and Linda Brown, head at Lossiemouth High, as well as primary head teachers in the area.

A spokesman for Moray Council said: “It is anticipated that around 100 service children will enrol for the start of the new school session in August, with more to follow as the transfer of the Typhoon fleet progresses. Education officials from Fife Council visited schools in Elgin and Lossiemouth before Christmas as part of the preparations for the move by pupils and their families.”

He added: “Two years ago education officials from Moray travelled to Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire to meet Army families preparing to relocate to the former RAF Kinloss. That exercise proved extremely valuable in helping familiarise parents with the Scottish education system, curriculum issues and extracurricular facilities and activities.”

Mrs Stanley said “We hope the meeting will help make the transition smoother for parents and the children who will be enrolling in our schools. It will also provide an opportunity for parents to raise any questions or issues they may have and for them to meet the head teachers from the schools where their children are likely to enrol.”