School Improvements

During the Summer holiday a number of building projects have been completed, making some welcome improvements to the school environment and facilities.

New signs, including Braille signs, have been put up to help visitors to the school and to improve security.

Disabled access to the school has been improved with the construction of a ramp to the back door.

 

Further work has been done on the main student entrance near the staff room. In addition to new signs, the foyer area has been extended and improvements made to the rooms used by Grove Connex - our mentoring scheme - and Connexions.

The outside area between the Technology and C Blocks has been landscaped and generally tidied up. A potentially dangerous high step has been replaced by a ramp and a delapidated raised flower bed removed.

When "Le Bistro" was opened two years ago as a new eating area it immediately become very popular and it was necessary to use the adjacent old lecture theatre as an overflow area. This was not ideal as the floor was sloping and the seating was designed for rows of students in a lecture rather than for sitting down for a snack or a meal! We have now taken out all the old lecture theatre fittings, built a new level, platform floor and put in dining tables and chairs. This has doubled the size of "Le Bistro" and the improvements seem very popular with students.