Last night was a good night for Highbury Grove school!
In the first part of the evening we had a very useful meeting about the latest plans for the school to be replaced under the Building Schools for the Future programme. At the end of this month we have an important meeting to make the final decision as the governing body to proceed with the project, so it’s good to see that so much work on all the details is going in, by the people at the school, CEA and the Council.
And then later in the evening the relevant Council planning sub-committee agreed to give planning permission for the new buildings. The new school will be completely new buildings, built on the same site but around the existing ones (which will then be demolished). It is a huge building project so this was a crucial step.
Roll on the new school!
October 10th, 2007 at 17:41
Congrats! I have to say over the last year the most satisfying work I have done is as a School governor, where we both recruited a new Head Teacher and came off £60k richer from negotiations with the LA around building work for Chidren’s Centres.
There are some meetings where you wonder why you’re bothering and then others when so much gets done and decided you feel like you’re really getting somewhere…it’s good, isn’t it?