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Winterhill - outside sports hall

Construction & Refurbishment

A key deliverable of the project is to improve upon the educational attainment by creating a better environment for learning.

The contract with the Rotherham Schools Joint Venture provides for the following:-

  • The construction and refurbishment will take 44 months.
  • Decant management - for some schools the re-build affects a great deal of the existing footprint
  • Provision of all fixed furniture

Work commenced in advance of financial close of the contract so that the schools could meet the programmed dates for hand over; in sync with term start dates. One of the prerequisites of the DfES was that at least one school should be handed over by 1st April 2004. Thornhill Primary was the first school to be completed handed over by the beginning of April 2004.

Winterhill School (formerly known as Old Hall Comprehensive) was the first secondary to be started and over the summer break oin 2004 a significant 'village' of temporary classrooms were created so that virtually two-thirds of the school could be decanted at the commencement of the autumn term. This allowed for a major portion of the school to be demolished so that phase 1 of the programme could commence.

build programme stone laying ceremony

The photograph shows the inauguration of the build programme with a stone-laying ceremony at Thornhill Primary School. Accompanying some of Thornhill's pupils are Councillor Georgina Boyes and Kevin Donegan from the Rotherham Schools Joint Venture.

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Thornhill Primary School