School Building Programme | 12 New Schools

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[woody]

Nice shots BB, looks very impressive.

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This is the fairly recently built Cardinal Heenan in West Derby. It has a shared sixth form building with neighbouring Broughton Hall:

[Paul D]

Plans approved for £17m Archbishop Beck school

Plans have been approved for a new £17m home for Liverpool's Archbishop Beck Catholic Sports College.

The school will relocate from its current site on Cedar Road, Walton, to a new building on the site of the former Long Lane council depot in Fazakerley.

It has been designed by architects Sheppard Robson and is being engineered by Mouchel.

Willmott Dixon won the contract to build the £17m secondary school for Liverpool City Council in March as part of the local authority's ongoing programme to rescue projects that stalled when Building Schools for the Future collapsed in 2010.

The school is being developed as a series of "learning clusters arranged in a simple, cost efficient and flexible building shell".

There will be an adjacent six court sports hall and extensive external sports facilities for both college and community use.

The school will feature a solar panelled roof to generate electricity, basketball courts, a theatre and recording and dance studios.

Sheppard Robson associate James Jones said: "This new facility has been designed within Liverpool's exacting cost parameters, but through detailed engagement with the college we are confident the scheme will meet their exacting academic and pastoral requirements."

Work will start on site in May, with the school due to open in time for the start of the academic year in September 2014.

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First look at new home of Croxteth secondary St John Bosco as it’s hailed national ‘trail blazer’

A LIVERPOOL school which refused to be beaten, after losing out on a planned multi-million pound new home, has been hailed a “trail-blazing” example to follow by government chiefs.

The plaudits handed to Croxteth secondary St John Bosco Arts College, after gaining official “teaching school status”, comes as the artist’s impressions of its new home – secured at the third time of asking – are revealed.

The secondary was among 26 city schools which missed out on a revamp when the coalition axed Labour’s £350m Building Schools For The Future (BSF) scheme.

Then, under a scaled- down Liverpool council-led schools transformation, it had been earmarked to open in new premises in 2014 on the Stonebridge Cross development – before the possible construction of a giant warehouse scuppered that plan.

But it has since been given the green light to be rebuilt and open on its existing site by 2014.

Nearer to Storrington Avenue, its sports hall is the only building which will be retained under the revised proposals.

Despite the previous disappointments, the school has gone from strength to strength and has the highest outstanding Ofsted rating.

Now its excellence has caught the eye of national education chiefs who have decided St John Bosco Arts College is worthy to be one of only 350 schools in England to be granted coveted teaching school status.

The designation by the government-backed National College for School Leadership entitles the school to lead the training and professional development for staff in schools across the region.

It is the first secondary in Liverpool to get the status, which will not only see its staff pass on expertise to other schools and help trainee teachers, including students at Liverpool Hope university.

Delighted deputy headteacher Heather Duggan said that, with work starting on the new building, the school was enjoying a double celebration.

“With BSF, we could have put our heads in the sand but we refused to let negativity set in or become complacent.

“You only get teaching school status if your teaching and learning is outstanding, but before you can achieve that you have excellent behaviour and attendance and our girls have that. Croxteth is a great place and our girls want to come here.”

Maggie Farrar, executive director at the National College, said: “Teaching schools like St John Bosco Arts College should be proud of their achievement as they need to be at the top of their game to take on this role.”

The new building will be less rigid in design, allowing more flexibility in the way the school teaches lessons. However, it will not dilute its arts and drama expertise with a huge performance area at the heart of the school.

Read more: Liverpool Echo http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...#ixzz2Qj0w3i2W

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Originally Posted by buggedboy

This was never really going to work. The traffic would have been horrendous and clogged up a main artery into the city. It already is too blocked up at times.

Where next for the school? The Archbishop Blanch pass the parcel game continues.

If Renshaws, currently at the corner of Crown Street and Upper Parliament Street, moves to the wholesale fruit & veg market site on Edge Lane, could Archbishop Blanch move to the Renshaws site??

[buggedboy]

That would be a much better site, certainly. They'd have to adjust the right hand turn off Parlie, but it's certainly doable.

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http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/...0L11%209DQ.pdf

New school up for approval. This is despite the primary school pulling out of the proposed scheme.