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Hull National Academies Framework (NAF) - 18/08/2009
Hull’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) team has announced Balfour Beatty (BB) as its first Private Sector Partner to deliver the ‘early phase’ of its £465m schools capital programme which is worth £50m and Thorpe Kilworth will be involved in the supply of the FF&E for the Sirius Academy.Balfour Beatty is now moving forward with its exciting plans to design and build Sirius Academy, Ganton Special School and the Education Service for Hearing and Vision (ESHV).
The new Sirius Academy will replace Pickering High School, with Ganton Special School and the ESHV co-located on the same site. This visionary new ‘learning campus’ is a landmark moment for BSF and its partners, which will establish a new state-of-the-art Academy and special school provision in the west area of the city.
The new Academy is due to open as an academy in the existing building this coming September (2009) and will transfer in September 2011 to its new building alongside Ganton School and the ESHV.
The Academy will specialise in sport with state-of-the art facilities and just beyond the entrance will be a fabulous open ‘heart space’ with large ‘pods’ housing ICT-rich specialist areas and an ‘eco-dome’ to enhance environmental sciences. The Academy will make both an instant and lasting impression with its creative design and many exciting facilities such as dance studios, a hair and beauty salon and an external construction workshop, as well as opening its doors for extensive community use.
Pupils from Ganton Special School and the ESHV will have their own hydrotherapy pool and an exciting internal courtyard with a relaxing sensory garden. It will be a school unlike any other seen before in Hull.
Should Balfour Beatty successfully progress designs for a ‘second phase’ of work they will go on to build a brand new Kelvin Hall School on its existing site for 1500 students worth £20m.
Close behind this first appointment will be the second, much bigger appointment, due in September 2009, which will see either Balfour Beatty Capital or Esteem appointed to design and build all the other 19 secondary and special schools in the city between 2010 and 2015.
Dave Donaldson, Managing Director of Balfour Beatty Construction Northern commented “We are looking forward to building upon our long association with Hull and are delighted to be playing an important role in this exciting project that will preserve local employment and develop local training and supply chain opportunities.”
(Information supplied by Building Schools for Future, Hull County Council)
For more information please contact
Sarah Hesslewood, Media and Communications Manager, Building Schools for the Future
Telephone: 01482 616561 or mobile: 07740 408808
Email: sarah.hesslewood@hullcc.gov.uk
Websites
www.buildingourfuture.co.uk
www.bsf.gov.uk
www.hullcc.gov.uk
Building Schools for the Future
Hull City Council
King William House
Lowgate
Hull, HU1 1RS
Notes to editors
• Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a government scheme that will see around £400m invested in Hull’s schools
• BSF will transform secondary education provision across Hull, with the aim of lifting educational attainment and delivering improved results
• The transformation through BSF will provide top quality educational facilities fit for the 21st Century, to meet the needs of teaching and learning
• BSF will require change – for schools to be rebuilt and remodelled or upgraded. The result will be high quality schools offering attractive learning environments where teachers want to teach and where pupils want to learn
• BSF is the most exciting development in education the city has ever seen catering for learners from 0 to 90, in communities where people want to live, with schools becoming the heart of those communities
• This is the appointment of Balfour Beatty Construction as the Preferred Private Sector Partner on the ‘early delivery’ phase of BSF.
• A ‘main phase’ programme will start shortly afterwards on the appointment of a second contractor in late September 2009 who will be responsible for the design and build of the 19 other Hull schools in the programme.
• A number of primary school developments are also being planned to complement and enhance the secondary school BSF programme.