A public consultation is being launched to scrutinise new school proposals in Tillydrone and Old Aberdeen.
There are two options on the table and Aberdeen City Council is striving to find which gains most support.
One suggestion is for the creation of a new shared campus which includes St Peter’s School, a new non-denominational primary and an early education and childcare facility on the site of the former St Machar School.
The other is the relocation of St Peter’s into the existing Riverbank School building and the creation of a new three stream non-denominational school with early education and childcare provision also at the former St Machar site.
Education convener Angela Taylor said: “A public consultation will help us take the right decision in meeting the needs of parents and children to secure the best site and provision of expanded primary education in Tillydrone and Old Aberdeen.
“We also have the potential to create 200 new nursery school places. These are needed to meet the expanded early year’s learning and childcare services target which every Scottish local authority has to meet in 2020”.
The consultation commences on October 24 and will last until December 9.
A consultation report will follow in preparation for a special meeting of the Education and Children’s Services committee next February.
