The school has been awarded £850,000 by the Learning Skills Council.

This means that along with the contributions from the Local Authority, the school’s Specialist Status funding and our own internal fund-raising efforts we have now reached the £1,900,000 target cost of the Learning Resource Centre, the refurbishment of Science labs and the ground floor refurbishments in and around the existing library and main office.

The result is that we can now proceed, as planned with the full project as outlined by Gillespie Yunnie our architect. This has been explained to students and staff in assemblies and Phil Yunnie has also put on an after school presentation for interested staff and one for the School Parliament.

As a result

• The lawn at the front of school will be fenced off during Half Term at which point new emergency evacuation routes will need to be announced.

• Contractors will be working in the building (Science re-furbishment) and outside the building (LRC) from that date. They have been told that they will not be able to use the staff car parks.

• This will be a difficult year for all of us so I would ask for your patience and understanding as we progress with the project. Any issues please talk through with me as they crop up.

Paul Widnall 15th May 2007
update coming soon