TELEVISION gardener Alys Fowler was admiring two school gardens yesterday.

NEW traffic calming measures near St Andrew’s School seemed to be working when the children returned after half-term.

CONTROVERSIAL road humps outside St Andrew’s School were removed yesterday.

VOTES by Alderney’s two representatives saved a threatened school.

ONE of the consequences of the decision by the States last week not to close either St Andrew’s Primary or St Sampson’s Infant Schools is to focus attention on public finances and the stomach deputies have for making economies.

WITH the benefit of hindsight, it can be seen that the hawks within the Education Department made a huge tactical error in their bid to close at least one primary school.

THE Education Department is in need of financial help, according to its minister, Carol Steere.

ONE of the questions left hanging as a result of yesterday’s dramatically narrow decision not to close St Sampson’s Infants is whether the school has been saved – or merely given a reprieve.

ANXIOUS parents and pupils of St Sampson’s and St Andrew’s should find out the future of their schools today.

ST ANDREW’S PTA yesterday made a last-ditch effort to persuade the States to vote to keep the school open.