A £670,000 investment to transform facilities at Broadlea Primary School has been completed. The past few months have seen major improvements at the Lake school, where pupils can now enjoy refurbished classrooms and a wonderful new outside play area. Funded by the Isle of Wight Council, the project started last Summer and was finished during the February half-term by Island firm, MCM Construction Ltd. New furniture and equipment have been purchased by the school which worked closely with the council’s Early Years Advisory Team to create a fantastic learning environment. Richard Simpson, acting headteacher, said:
“The new classroom spaces are warm and welcoming and will allow teachers to create engaging lessons tailored to the needs of their students and a space in which to deliver them. “The students and teachers have loved getting them ready and seeing their new rooms and can’t wait to start learning in them.”
Several schools were upgraded or refurbished by the council last year and many more are set to benefit from millions of pounds of government funding. 5 bids to the government’s flagship School Rebuilding Programme were successful representing a multi-million-pound investment in Island education at Nine Acres Primary School, The Bay CE School (secondary site), Hunnyhill Primary, St George’s School and Medina College. The new buildings will be more energy efficient for future winter resilience and net-zero in operation, with old facilities replaced by modern education environments. Councillor Jonathan Bacon, Cabinet member for children’s services and education, added:
“As part of our drive to improve the quality of education on the Island we are continually investing in our schools to ensure our children can have access to the best possible opportunities by having the best possible learning environment.”
So far, so good. One of the best things you could do for these precious children is, put a ballpoint circle round any spelling mistakes and require THEM to look it up in a dictionary. Which could be a book, or digital format and spell it correctly at the bottom of the page.
This may not be ‘politically correct’, but it works !
How do we teach children about the overuse of unnecessary commas, inverted commas and exclamation marks please?
Normal children?? Adults do work with people with ADHD, anxiety, autism, disabilities and companies employ them too John Bond. It’s called inclusivity, and discrimination is illegal. So is hate speech John…please be very careful here. There are many buses which transport children here, but not all children live in one designated area; some live elsewhere, and you’d never get any bus being able to accommodate 10 wheelchairs so taxis are used. You have no right whatsoever to place a value judgement on who can or can’t receive the same education we all took for granted because of our privilege. Message to Darren…please can you stop that person from posting under my name.
That message above reads more like Ive Searle/Sloop John B/etc.
Thank you. Yes it was. Everyone knows there is no way I use inflammatory language like that and I’m being trolled by John Bond. I suspect he has many different aliases, the coward. Being sorted though.