Building Schools for the 21C

Joanna PenmanChildren and Young People’s

Directorate (CYPD)

Neil CorbettCorporate 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

   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

        become more connected, with greater access to online information and resources.

        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?

• 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?

• 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 ?