Tours of the site

I have just had a tour of the build and taken some recent photographs of the rooms to show the completion of the partitions and to give a sense of the size of the rooms and the light from the windows. These are being placed on the website. Mr Batty, the Project Manager, has informed me that he will be completing the underfloor heating from next week so there will be no opportunity for tours until this is finished. We have also had a number of visitors to the school this week who have been given tours of the build. The feedback from them has been surprise at the size of the common room and cafeteria and the amount of space for the classrooms. They have also said how impressed they have been by the overall facility.

We have also had a number of educational furniture companies on site who are offering their suggestions for the furnishings in all the rooms. Again, this is an exiting next step in the process. I spent some time with Year 11 students yesterday looking at furniture catalogues and considering colours, styles and possibilities. I have kept their labelled pages for reference for the final decisions. We are also considering having a colour theme per room and students here seemed very positive about that.

I will also be speaking to the design team shortly about the exterior of the building and their ideas for making it modern and appealing. I am looking forward to that very much. The brickwork is reaching to the top of the building now and it will be good to see it all pulled together with modern design features.

An so another week passes, more building progress is made and we move another step closer.