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MMS
abbreviation
multimedia messaging service: a method of transmitting graphics, video or sound files and short text messages over wireless networks, esp on mobile phones
Example Sentences
Sitting with other parents and their children in the school library, Joseph's mum Angela said she had to remove her son from another school for "various reasons" but she added that MMS was the "best decision she had ever made" for him.
An initial six-week public consultation about the plan to shut MMS and merge six first and primary schools into three is currently under way.
But North Tyneside Council said MMS's pupil numbers had dropped by more than a third - down from 333 to 205 - since 2016, due to falling national birth rates.
She added MMS has had huge success getting pupils with emotional issues back into the classroom - in the long term saving the tax-payer money by allowing parents to work and not be forced into home schooling.
Both women added that MMS was not one of the 51 maintained schools in the borough which the council said were running in deficit.
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