Warminster community should help get schools closer to normal, according to a former chair of school governors.

Former chair of Princecroft Primary School governors Paul Macdonald said the community ‘could provide a boost to the efforts of teachers as they try to cope with the demands of central government’.

“The government is issuing coronavirus advice which is then pasted onto the Wiltshire Council website which is then pasted onto the town council website. For many of us, there is continual confusion. The government want the schools to re-open and education must return to normal in Warminster as soon as possible.

“It is time for our community to come to the aid of headteachers, teachers and governors.’

He has suggested safe spaces for temporary classrooms could include the town council hall in the civic centre, The Athenaeum room behind the foyer, and St. Johns Hall, old scout hut by Avenue School, and the sports centre .

Warminster could lead by showing a way forward, he added.