An action group set up to fight the closure of St Martin School has vowed not to give up.

The St Martin School Community Action Group said it would be submitting an action plan to the Department for Education to show how the school could still be run successfully in its opinion.

It hopes to persuade the DfE to refuse the request of the Keskowethyans Multi-Academy Trust, which is asking to shut the school as soon as practicably possible.

A spokesperson for the action group said: "The Keskowethyans MAT has not taken adequate steps to keep St Martin School viable over the period of the past few years, telling parents that matters were in hand, until February this year when they proposed to move all teaching to another school in the academy trust.

"Since then they have failed to engage with parents and the community in seeking ways to keep the school open, and pursued the sole aim of closing the school."

The action group had already passed on its plan to the directors of Keskowethyans MAT, which oversees the running of St Martin and four other primary schools on the Lizard Peninsula, ahead of their meeting on Monday evening to decide on the school's future.

In it the group acknowledges that its suggestions will "involve a significant amount of drive, experience and determination."

Thomasina Armstrong, who wrote the letter on behalf of the St Martin School Community Action Group, adds: "Directors will have to take the lead in motivating and leading all the staff of the Keskowethyans MAT into a future that will be more cohesive and sustainable for all five schools."

The most important point the group wants to see happen is for an executive headteacher to be employed on a temporary contract, possibly part-time, who has specific experience of strategic planning in small rural schools and who the current acting executive head could shadow to build experience.

Secondly, the group would like a restructure of all the teaching and learning practices across all five schools in the trust, to allow for greater flexibility in class size and staff number, and to allow for all schools and pre-schools to take advantage of the 30-hour free government funding for three-year-olds from September.

The third point is for the directors to support members of the community or action group to re-open a formal pre-school so that younger children in class one can return to that type of setting if deemed necessary.

Finally, the action group states that as a last resort, if all other three suggestions were seen to be unachievable, it would like to negotiate the release of St Martin from the academy trust, so that the school could unilaterally decide whether to return to a local authority school or join an alternative federation of local schools.