A MAJOR revamp of early years schooling has been agreed after a review of services provided in York.

Proposals will be discussed by the city council's executive, after consultation with parents around the Westfield, Clifton, Haxby, and Wiggington areas.

Parents with children at schools in those areas will be sent a letter outlining the next step in the battle to halt a decline in pupil rolls, and to ensure a "seamless'' progression from nursery to primary education.

Under the scheme, Westfield Infant and Junior schools would merge to form a primary school next September.

In Clifton, Burton Green Infants and Kingsway Junior would become primary schools, with children from Shipton Street Infant relocating to Kingsway Primary.

Oaken Grove Primary has been earmarked for closure in 2002, with children streamed through Haxby and Wigginton's schools instead. Northfield Nursery will also close at the end of the school year.

Council spokeswoman Councillor Janet Looker said: "What we have set out to achieve in this review is to provide nursery and primary schooling which better reflects the needs of children in the areas concerned.

"Nobody likes closing schools but, where we are proposing to do so, it is because we are aiming to give a better delivery of schooling in the areas concerned."