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 Future (BSF) scheme. |
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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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