Talks continue on Mallaig schools

PARENTS and Councillor Ben Thomson have met with Highland Council officials after a decision on cluster management in the Mallaig Area School Group was postponed.

Councillor Thomson said it was ‘good to hear the director of education admit it is a unique schools group and that more time will be spent considering it’.

He also said the director seemed to realise the need for careful consideration over the logistics of a Small Isles cluster and that a Mallaig mainland cluster would need an extra deputy head teacher.

He added: ‘It was good to hear officials are proposing to increase spending on Mallaig schools.’