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)
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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
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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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