ST SAMPSON’S Infants School has received £5,000 for collecting the most tokens out of the 23 schools that took part in Moonpig Cash4Schools competition.

STETHOSCOPES, blood pressure monitors and electric beds were just some of the medical devices St Sampson’s Primary children got to test out 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.

THE only St Sampson’s deputy to vote for the closure of her parish school is fed up with States hypocrisy.

LOUD ties pupils wore yesterday in aid of charity shone more brightly when news came through that the States had saved St Sampson’s Infants and St Andrew’s Primary.

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.

BOTH St Sampson’s Infants School and St Andrew’s Primary will remain open, the States decided this morning.