Transcript Role of the Access Commissioning Team

Building Schools for the 21C
Joanna Penman
Children and Young People’s
Directorate (CYPD)
Neil Corbett
Corporate Building Services
(CBS)
Aim of the presentation
• Bring the group up to date on the
primary and secondary capital
investment programmes
• Practical advice and guidance on
planning for school buildings both for
maintenance and improvement
Building Schools for the Future (BSF)
and the
Primary Capital programme (PCP)
• Major strategic programmes which join-up all
sources of funding
• Unprecedented levels of investment for the
next 15 years
• Entry into the programme is dependent on LA
strategies for delivery and transformation in
place
• Move away from patch and mend
• Deliver government and local agendas
PCP - purpose
• As much a change programme as a building
programme
• Strategy for all schools not just those getting
investment
• Primary schools at the heart of the community, with
children’s services in reach of every family
• Supports national policy agenda: raising standards,
ECM, diversity and responsiveness, extended
services, personalisation
• Targeted to address deprivation nationally and in
every local authority
• Enable transformational teaching and learning
PCP - Outputs
• 5% of the worst condition schools to be rebuilt or
taken out of commission (12 schools);
• 20% of the worst condition schools in the most
disadvantaged areas improved or taken out of use
• Investment to move schools into a modernised
category
• All remaining primary schools to continue to invest
devolved formula capital
PCP – where are we?
• Primary Strategy for Change approved
• £18m in the years 2009-11
– New 2FE school for St Peter’s Primary
– New 1.5FE school for the amalgamated
Lynworth and Whaddon Schools in
Cheltenham
– Funding to co-locate Kings Stanley Primary
school
PCP – where next?
• Work underway with the dioceses to
determine the next group of priority
schools for the rest of the programme
• Graham Horton appointed part time to
lead on countywide transformational
agenda – what learning spaces will look
like in the future, formation of a
Gloucestershire brief
Building Schools for the
Future
BSF is the best opportunity in a generation to
make a difference to secondary and special
schools
Transforming
•teaching and learning, what schools offer
•the way schools work with other services to
support children
•partnerships with each other, with parents,
with community
BSF
• Aims to replace 50% of building stock,
remodel 35% and refurbish 15% over a
15 year period
• ICT is a central part of the programme
of change
• Prioritised on standards and deprivation
BSF – where are we?
• Revised Expression of Interest
submitted November 2008 (Phase 1)
• Waiting for DCSF response February/
March 2008
• Gearing up for "Readiness to Deliver"
(Phase 2)
BSF – which schools
• Proposal for 7 "projects"
• Prioritisation:
– Disadvantage
– Standards
– Low complexity
– Long-term viability
• Initial project:
– Heywood (Cinderford, Forest of Dean)
– Maidenhill (Stonehouse, Stroud)
– Pittville (Cheltenham)
– Shrubberies (Stonehouse, Stroud)
What is the challenge?
“Many of the schools that are being built are
unsuited to the changing future pedagogy,
curriculum and learner expectations that we
can already anticipate. They also lack the
agility to cope with further anticipated
changes that we cannot yet know in detail.”
(Heppell et al, Building Learning Futures,
Ultralab)
We need to start, by asking not
‘what buildings do we want?’
but instead
‘what sort of education do we want to see
in future?’
Questions to be asked
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What sorts of learning relationships do we want to foster?
What skills and competencies do we want learners to develop?
How do we respond to the different learning styles, needs and
interests of individuals?
How do we offers learners greater choice over what they learn,
how they learn it, and even when and where they learn.
How do we create informal as well as formal learning spaces?
What tools and resources are available to us to support
learning?’
How will partnerships with the community affect learning
environments?
The role of digital technology will be absolutely critical in the school
of the future.
Learning in the future will undoubtedly
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become more connected, with greater access to online
information and resources.
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Enable children to work with and learn on an national and
international scale
Result in the emergence of new forms of digital creativity
What can schools do?
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Think about your vision for the future
Ask the kind of questions posed above
Visit other schools
Consult children and young people,
parents and communities
• Make pedagogy drive buildings not the
other way round
What can secondary schools do?
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Read Building Bulletin 98 (BB98)
Use websites – Teachernet, PfS, BSF
Visit schools
Commission a Premises Development Plan –
strategic view of the whole site and buildings
• A PDP will enable sensible investment to take
place and enable schools to take up
opportunities
What can primary and special
schools do?
• Read Building Bulletin 99
• Use web sites – Teachernet
• Update your Asset Management Plan
• Link financial planning and planning for
buildings to link with school improvement
Use Devolved Formula Capital
£37m devolved to schools 2008-11 to
address:
• highest condition priorities
• suitability issues
• accessibility
• can be spent on ICT
• Should be part of an asset management
plan for the school
Advice and guidance for
heads
• Technical advice from Corporate Building
Services
• Advice on suitability, capacity, accessibility,
funding, indicated admission number, use of
DFC from -
Access Commissioning Project
Officers
• Julie Brewer – (Stroud and the Cotswolds) 01452-426763
• Sarah McLachlan – (Cheltenham and
Tewkesbury) 01452-425362
• Jenny Challenger – (Gloucester and the
Forest of Dean) 01452-425346
Questions ?