An Isle of Wight boarding school has used a 6-figure funding package from HSBC UK to build a new accommodation block to house 68 of the school’s boarding pupils.
Ryde School with Upper Chine has over 750 pupils and has used the funding to build a modern boarding house, complete with social and study spaces and a large common room.
The new accommodation, which has clear views of the Island’s coast, will enable all students to live on campus and remove the need for the 10-mile commute from the school’s older boarding house at Bembridge.
As part of the new building, the school has renovated previously unused land and breathed a new lease of life into its netball courts, added an international boules area, as well as providing a new outdoor learning centre for all year groups.
Jonathan Marren, Bursar at Ryde School, said:
“Having recently celebrated our centenary year, we wanted to continue the development of the school and the new block will not only reduce the long commute into school for our boarders, but will have the capacity for an additional 30 students. Our Relationship Director at HSBC UK, Catherine Painter, has been extremely helpful and attentive and the bank’s team clearly understood our needs from the start.”
Gareth Evans, Area Director, Hampshire & Dorset at HSBC UK, added:
“It’s always rewarding to support the development of a school. Ryde School has the pupils and their development at the centre of all decisions, so helping them fund such a modern and innovative building has been a pleasure.”
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Typical, a non essential project to help the well off….. this money would of been better spent on some of the other schools on the island. Not Ryde school.
Ryde school is a PRIVATE school and so it is funded PRIVATLY . You can get off your soap box and stop moaning about money being diverted from state run schools .
I think you will find it’s spelt PRIVATELY, did you go to Ryde School then ?
jack in the box – stop whining – Ryde School has every right to cater for the expansion of its school – why should it bother with state schools that it has no influence, no input and no stake in.
stop being jealous of others success in life.
No way I’m being jealous hahaha, you won’t stop me whining as you put it at all. Like to know how many Island kids go to Ryde School not many…. catering for the mainlanders who can’t send there kids to there own schools nearby.
yes you are being jealous – your initial comment is dripping in jealousy.
A high proportion of the kids at Ryde School are islanders – have you not driven past that school in the mornings, assuming you work and seen the huge numbers being dropped off in cars and walking along queens road
Not jealous, I just believe in fairness. I’ve noticed no matter what the subject is about you tend to disagree with everyone on here, never mind if you want to be that way, that’s up to you. I find it disturbing that you drive past a school and notice that they are from the island. How do you know that for sure.
Funnily enough, I was delivering leaflets in Ryde today, about the fact that the previous Council gave its shares in the PTEC project, (which would ruin our south coast by allowing a poorly thought through wind farm scheme, creating noise and bright lights night-long), and thought teachers and students at Ryde school would be pleased to find out about it, so they might research this spoiling of our precious environment and protest. But could I find a letterbox at ANY of the school buildings? NO! I suddenly realised how insular to Island issues the school is. It APPEARS to be part of us, but apparently in name only. It’s gone down in my estimation.
Its spending has no impact on public schools at all. Its privately funded, and arguably expanding it will also offer up more opportunity for work for the Isle of Wight residents in the form of cleaners, maintenance staff, teaching staff, etc, which all go back into the tax system and local economy.
I don’t disagree that the building is awful though.
Bankers looking after the rich. What a surprise.
jealous and pathetic gurt – are you suggesting that the banks shouldn’t offer mortgages to people because they have jobs, just in case some benefit sponger gets upset. Banks are not charities and should not be giving away depositors money to sob stories.
It’s a shame that the school has total disregard for the people living in Spencer Road that now have to endure this ugly building,and the damage caused to the highway
the building is set back from the road and the entrance on spencers road was there already.
those residents will only see it, if they look out of rear facing windows, which previously just looked onto the school grounds, which have a lot of trees around them – so no, it won’t really impact anyone living there.
So if they don;t look out of their homes’ back windows, they won’t be troubled. At least they can look out of their front windows then, and be grateful for that. Apparently.