PUPILS swapped their school
caps for hard hats as they
welcomed the arrival of
builders to transform their
surroundings.
Kingsbury
School, a specialist science
and maths college at
Kingsbury, near Solihull, is
to be partially redeveloped
in a £1.7 million scheme.
Greswolde Construction,
based in Knowle, is to
replace outdated mobile
classrooms with
state-of-the-art facilities
at the 607-pupil school.
The pupils, who also
donned fluorescent jackets,
were allowed to leave the
classroom for the building
site as part of their
careers and development
programme.
They were able to see the
foundations being poured,
ask questions about what was
happening on the site, and
also about working in the
construction industry.
Kingsbury head teacher
Anne Rogerson said the
exercise was typical of the
school's drive to maximise
potential, adding: "We never
let a learning opportunity
slip through our hands. And
the pupils really enjoyed
it.
"We are keen to provide
learning and enrichment
opportunities for our young
people during the project's
development and are grateful
to Greswolde for enabling
supervised visits to see
work in progress.
"Although the building
work has made an impact on
the daily life of the
school, the willingness of
both parties to work
together has mini-mised the
potential short-term
negative impact and we look
forward to the project's
successful completion."
Greswolde site manager
Dave Cheatham said: "We are
always pleased to welcome
clients on site, and these
were particularly
inquisitive."
Work on replacing seven
temporary classrooms is
expected to be completed by
August.
The project will result
in five new classrooms and
two specialist information
communication technology
rooms, as well as an
extension to the school hall
which will contain a
classroom, two recording
studios/offices and two
practice rooms.
A
Tamworth entrepreneur braved the infamous
Dragons' Den in the hope of winning a business
deal.
The
Raf visited Kingsbury School this month to help
GCSE science pupils reach for the sky.The RAF
Real-Life Science Workshop Tour transformed a
classroom into a temporary RAF base in a bid to
make science more exciting and relate better to
'real-life' jobs in the service.The visit was
one to 25 schools across the UK and saw students
take part in challenging and fun workshops based
on a search and rescue mission in an
earthquake-hit region.Pupils were tasked with
setting up base camp, planning healthy balanced
diets to keep teams properly nourished and
designing a helipad lighting system.Specially-trained
and fully-qualified science teachers lead the
workshop.
