WE are becoming a little annoyed with the recent comments made in the local Press by Paul Sanders, regarding the relocation of Christopher Whitehead School.

In his last letter (You Say, Wednesday, September 24) he says "the community does not want the school to move".

Well, Mr Saunders, we live in St John's and have a daughter who attends Christopher Whitehead and two sons who will go there in the future.

We do want the school to move, so that Christopher Whitehead High School can move into the 21st Century, and be able to give our children an education of excellence with improved teaching facilities and, most importantly, giving the children more space and up-to-date infrastructures.

The current school has to move, to give the children the education facilities they deserve. Complete improvements cannot be offered on the current site.

For example, how can the sporting provision be improved?

There are no fields around the current school site, only houses. So improving any facility will be impossible.

I wonder if Mr Sanders is aware that Christopher Whitehead's sports fields are some distance away from the school, which results in valuable time being wasted in the children having to walk and cross the busy Bromwich Road, to the sports fields before a lesson can start.

That's if the football/rugby pitches are not flooded . The river does tend to flood during the winter months.

Has Mr Saunders seen the children trying to practise their football/rugby/cricket during their lunchtime on the only bit of grassed area the school has, at the front of the main entrance to the school?

Besides wanting a new up-to-date school, we also want a new up-to-date supermarket in St John's, as we are fed up having to drive to either Malvern or St Peter's to be able to do a reasonable grocery shop.

TRACY AND MARTIN HEYWOOD,

St John's, Worcester.