“Visiting some of these primary schools and walking around, the last thing you would say is that their buildings are fit for purpose. “I was a teacher 14 years ago, a Protestant teacher in a Catholic school in Liverpool. The average per head for Flintshire primary schools is £5,360 – hence the argument that smaller schools are financially inefficient. “One of the arguments against the 3-18 school has been to look at what’s happened in Denbighshire – that it’s failing,” he said. If the process and the structure was in place to have a 3-18 school I’d have welcomed it.”