We feel your reports on the failings at Boredom Busters misrepresented the position of both Stourfield Infant and Junior Schools in this sorry affair.

Boredom Busters is a council-run independent scheme and neither school has any involvement or responsibility in its operation.

The scheme rents facilities on a number of sites, including Stourfield Junior School’s playing field and swimming pool. The school also rents these facilities to many other users.

The infant school does not have any connection at all to Boredom Busters, so your use of its name and picture added insult to injury!

It did not help that the Ofsted investigation was entitled Boredom Busters at Stourfield School, but a brief reading of their report would show that this was a reference to the location of the scheme only and that the junior school’s facilities and management were not implicated in any way.

The effect on a school’s reputation could easily lead many schools which are trying to reach out into their communities to re-think their policy on renting their premises for community activities.

This would be a great loss.

Gaynor Brown, chair of governors, Stourfield Junior School & Diana Cobden, chair of governors, Stourfield Infant School