How about 'learning community' to reflect the services that local schools (sorry 'places of learning') provide to the local people. How much information do the children bring home to 'educate' the parents??

Kit, Hertford, Hertfordshire

This is similar to calling a ship a vessel and then perhaps it won't sink when it hits a iceburg!!
There is no getting away from it: Teaching and Learing anything worthwhile is hard work and to expect it to be otherwise is unrealistic. Learn to love it!!

John Cosmas, Guildford , Surrey

Hardly surprising the word school may have negative connotations when those running it are talking such utter nonsense. I'd remove my children and risk sending them to an old fashioned "school" where they'd receive a proper education. I'd definitely reinstate the S word: Sacking.

Tony, Bristol,

Ha ha ha... this is fantastic. Its more comical (and pathetic) than reality tv. Maybe change hospitals to 'healing centres'.
Good to know tax payers money is being spent on yet more useless ideas.

Adi, Reading, UK

No wonder England (I don't include Scotland & Wales) is slipping further & further down the world's league table of educational excellence. I have been a teacher, not only in England but also in Ugande & Kenya, since the mid 1960s & I have noticed the fall in standards here compared with abroad.

Francis Parkes, Puddletown, UK

To be really pedantic may I point out that it is a building, NOT a 'meadow'. The sign at the gate shows "Waterfield Meadow, a place for learning". How confusing is that for the poor little mites, they will never find open space with grass and wild flowers, just a red brick building with a grey roof!

Chris D, Edinburgh, Scotland

They would do better to concentrate on teaching kids to read and write

M Powell, Guisborough, UK

"We wanted to deinstitutionalise the place and bring the school closer to real life". So even the head teacher can't avoid using the word "school".

Allan Richardson, Halver,

thats the problem with education system is doesn't know what its is supposed to be doing. No wonder the kids have no faith.

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

Lets face it, 'Schools' are failing. Children are becoming more and more uneducated by the minute. A change in the name to refresh the whole thing is a great idea. There have been so many changes to the education system that the word 'school' is becoming more and more out of date.

Andrew Roberts, Crewe, UK

I went to night school acouple of years ago, and I was 70! A school is a school whatever you do, whether you learn anything or not is very dependent upon yourself!

David Vinter, , Louth, Lincs., UK.

In my experience an change of name usually follows a failure, therefore it, to me at least, is an admission that the education system has failed.
There are three essentials in this world. Work- Money- Life for a happy existence all three are necessary. In what measure? that is for the individual.

Jurgen, St Maixent sur Vie, France

I find it depressing that the headmistress thinks that the change in name will bring the school "closer to real life". Even more depressing that the parents "had very negative connotations of school". Suspect they will quickly feel the same about the new name.

I'm with the critics. Laughable.

Phil, Orpington,

I wonder how much time and money they spent on this pointless re-branding nonsense...?

Graham Marsden, Portsmouth, UK

A hospital is a place of healing, I suppose.

William D H Carey, Schoten 2900, Belgium

Political correctness gone mad!!!

Akin Osuntoki, London, UK

Ignoring the silly political correctness of this, there is a more worrying aspect.... surely "schooling" means to proactively teach, instructing, passing on knowledge, etc. But "learning" is the acquisition of knowledge by the recipient. Will teachers not be "teaching"? Is the onus on the "learner"?

Gaz, Chelmsford,

So when these PC pupils finally enter the real world,and apply for a job. On the job application,where it asks "School". What do they put? None?

D Wallace, Birmingham, UK

Whether the label used is school, centre of knowledge, place of learning - the focus should be on learning and not the label attached to descibe where it happens. I wonder how much resource will be spent rebranding the 'school' compared with that actually spent on the provision of learning itself?

Iwi, leeds,

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets no longer has libraries but instead has 'Idea Stores'. Thankfully my nearest one on the Isle of Dogs is a handsome Carnegie building with the word 'Library' carved in stone on its facade.

Erica Aarons, London,

Perhaps it's so she won't have to provide statistics on the 'school's' poor performance (if they pretend it's not really a school).

If I were a local parent I'd be doing my best to avoid sending my children to a school run by such a person.

David, St Albans, UK

Another day, another fool.

e breaker, sittingbourne, kent

this county doesnt deserve to be called great britain anymore.

we seem to be a bunch of politically correct cowards who are incapable of making any difficult decisions.

will, grimsby, uk

The prefix 'EX' in front of her name and title ....Now that would be a good idea ! ! that would leave room for someone who would teach them to READ and WRITE,,that being the sole purpose of a PRIMARY SCHOOL.

ANT, derby, UK

I hate being british these days. Thank you, socialists, for destroying the country.

MM, Hampshire, UK

Hilarious... you couldn't make it up.

Saul F, Sheffield,

This will work up until the point when "Place of Learning" has a negative connotation and then they'll have to come up with a new word. Can someone say these bureaucrats have too much time on their hands?

Phil, Vaughan, Canada

My son (nearly two) wants to go to nursery SCHOOL - I see nothing wrong with the word school - it is what it is, a school. In twenty years 'place of learning' will have the same negative meaning to a lot of parents and what will the school call itself them - 'a centre of knowledge' and then what?

Gareth Jones, Cardiff, Wales

These Head Teachers and Education bureaucrats should be fired. Teachers and children need enthusing, children need to be taught the three Rs properly, self-discipline and work ethic.

And this at a time when so many kids finish up unable even to read and write properly! What a waste of time.

Peter Lloyd, BLACKER HILL, South Yorkshire

The sooner England stops kow-towing to ethnic and Muslim pressure groups the better. England is principally a Christian country with a long history and much tradition. No wonder no one is proud to be British any more.

Richard, London,

This is liberal political conformism (LPC), which prostitutes language in order to conceal reality behind its ideological fantasies. The people will not be fooled.

Terry, London, UK

Making learning enjoyable sounds like a good idea, until children have to learn something which just can't be made fun. From my point of view it's a cruel deception, akin to feeding garden birds from Spring to Autumn, then taking the feeder down. I told my son from day one that learning is a battle.

philip hill, bridgetown, canada ns