THE ECHO
today brings you the first
glimpse of how a £150m
transformation of Knowsley’s
high schools will look.
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Our
exclusive images come as
the council revealed
design details and
launched a pupil-fronted
campaign to raise
awareness of the major
revamp.
It is replacing all its
high schools with seven
learning centres by 2010
under the
government’s
Building Schools For The
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One
artist’s impression
shows Prescot and Whiston
Community Centre for
Learning – a
combination of
Whiston’s Higher
Side comprehensive and
Prescot school. It will
open on the site of
Prescot school in
September next year.
The other is Halewood
Centre for Learning which
replaces Halewood
comprehensive and opens
in 2009 – possibly
as early as April.
Today it was confirmed
the schools, intended to
be used by the whole
community, will include:
Separate bases for
different year groups
which will include
terraces for outdoor
teaching and activities. |
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“Multi-purpose”
adaptable teaching areas
– such as
retractable walls to
cater for a “modern
curriculum” and keep
up with any educational
changes.
Atriums designed to
utilise natural light at
the heart of each school.
These will be used for
group work and
assemblies.
Specialist teaching for
each site, ranging from
business to languages.
Adaptable
“warehouses”
with the latest equipment
for science and
technology, art and food
technology.
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The
details emerged as the council
launched an awareness campaign
championing the benefits of the
transformation.
Posters featuring pupils, staff,
parents and residents with the
theme “Centres for learning
– inspiring, exploring,
achieving” are being
displayed on buses, billboards
and the school sites.
Cllr Graham Wright, cabinet
member for children’s
services, said: “The very
best advocates for the new
centres for learning are the
people who will benefit from them
the most. We’ve involved
staff, students and others every
step of the way because these are
their facilities and we wanted
them to be the stars of the
campaign.”
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