After years of effort, we successfully secured an SCA bid, with the Salisbury Diocese providing the majority of the funding. With planning permission granted, our outdated KS2 mobile classroom will be replaced. While it has served its purpose, we look forward to the addition of the new KS2 building, which will join to the old school building. We are all very excited.
A November Update... which means completion is delayed. We will not be in our new KS2 classrooms until 18th November at the earliest. Whilst this is sad, staff continued to use the additional days to find and sort some furniture. This will still need a bit longer but we will work together and try to be ready for the Monday morning.
KS1 also had some building work over the half term - the staffroom has changed and has a new carpet; Thatchers classroom has a permanent wall providing a small separate space at the far end of the classroom and nearly everywhere has had a coat of paint.
We had a lot of volunteers up over the last weekend - I was hugely grateful to spread some jobs and so the outdoor area has had a clean up - leaves, branches, walls and weeding! Thank you everyone who came to school!
So I do hope these will be the last photos before the final completed classrooms are all in place.
By the end of October, the finish is line is in sight and we have reached half term. With many jobs still to be done before the children can return on Friday 8th November, we have had to work hard in the old building where we have all been working, tightly squeezed in to small spaces. Some walls down in the staffroom and Thatchers, lots of decorating and old furniture to place as well as new furniture to store!
Solar panels are meaning a delay in scaffolding coming down but hopefully a solution will be found so as not to delay the start of Term 2 further. The fire exits need to be in place before the children are allowed back!
But the interior is certainly looking complete - just the new toilet area to finish!
The beginning of October - things continue to progress and it is really beginning to show how fantastic the final build will be - and the space that we will shortly be able to fill! nearly 6 months of being squashed into our 179 year old building is taking a toll.
The 2 classrooms look amazing and the corridor is so wide!
27th September - we have doors and windows in and the roof is water tight.
1 month until we should be able to move in!
20th September - myself, Mrs Bawden and Gussie could go inside the building for the first time... and it looks great!
We have chosen a floor, the doors and toilet cubicles. It is becoming very real. Completion is still on for the end of October 2024.
In September, we returned to school - a re-juggle of classes again to suit our changing class sizes - but still together in the lovely old building. Space was tight and whole school Worships are tricky but again everyone was supporting each other and we were doing our best.
A start of the new school year and things seemed to be progressing slowly, but by week 2 all the hard work in the factory, behind the scenes, has meant that we saw a huge difference on Tuesday with the sides going up and then the next day, the roof being delivered. The crane was hugely exciting during our stop and drop!
Term 6 saw us all working together in KS1, moving the staff out of their staff room, having a stud wall erected in Thatchers so that Foresters could join them. It was cosy but it would be perfect while the building outside progressed.
Building works started but typically progress was a little slow, but by the end of the Summer holidays the floor done and we could see the building's footprint.
On the 4th October, a few more walls are in. A skylight with automatic closure if it starts to rain!
It is looking very big.
