On 20 May David Ruffley will be joining the children of Ickworth Park Primary School for lunch as well as taking a tour of the classrooms.

Mr Ruffley said: 'We are entering a crucial phase in the school reorganisation of the Bury St Edmunds Pyramid. The overwhelming majority of primary schools in Bury want to proceed to a two tier system well before 2017 which was pencilled in as a deadline by Suffolk Local Education Authority.

I agree with my primary school Head teachers but this involves some big questions:

If primary schools start taking ten and eleven year olds, where is the funding to pay for this? Also, how are extra classrooms to be built on existing sites?

I discussed this with County Councillor Graham Newman, Education Portfolio Holder, in my office on 18 May. I am going to Ickworth Park Primary to see for myself what needs to be done on the ground. '