“Community programs including a mobile preschool will return to the former Wollombi Public School site after the Wollombi School Community Education Trust secured an ongoing short-term licence to manage the site.

The school site was slated for sale by the NSW Government last November and WSCET was given its marching orders at the end of the summer school holidays.

But the Department of Education and Communities has since granted renewed access to WSCET, a not-for-profit local organisation that was set up after the school was closed in December 2014.

The organisation hosted more than 300 events in less than two years, including the Hunter Mobile Preschool, history talks, indigenous programs, art workshops, film nights and prenatal classes, while continuing its campaign to retain the school site in public ownership.”