Parents have hit out at a decision to change the name of their children’s “historic” school, with one claiming it has created “venom” amongst parents. Hartley Primary Academy has 443 pupils between the ages of three and 11 at its site in Longfield, near Gravesend. Built nearly two centuries ago in 1841, it converted to an academy in May 2013 to become part of the Leigh Academies Trust (LAT). An announcement in the Trust’s winter newsletter in December revealed the school, in Round Ash Way, would be changing its name to Leigh Academy Hartley. However, some parents missed that news and didn’t re…
