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Latest ‘super school’ opens doors to Blackburn and Darwen pupils
7:00pm Friday 14th September 2012 in News
Latest ‘super school’ opens doors to Blackurn and Darwen pupils
THE third new ‘super school’ to open this month in Blackburn and Darwen has welcomed its first pupils.
Blackburn Central High School, off Haslingden Road, opened its doors on Wednesday to pupils in Years 10 and 11.
Today is the first day for Year Seven pupils, while yesterday Years Eight and Nine saw their new school for the first time.
The opening had been delayed after £24,000 of computer equipment was stolen.
The school, one of the last in the country to be built in the previous Government’s Building Schools for the Future scheme, sees Beardwood High School and Blakewater College merge, while Crosshill School has also moved to the new building.
Darwen Vale and Witton Park High schools have also opened this month.
Blackburn Central deputy headteacher Majid Ditta said he was delighted to start the school year, which had been delayed after computer equipment was stolen and part of the building damaged during a break-in.
He said: “It has been frustrating with the theft and delayed opening but that has also brought a real community spirit.
“Everyone has mucked in and staff have gone above and beyond the call of duty to get us ready.
“When we saw the kids for the first time in their new uniforms there was a real buzz and excitement.
“A wonderful thing for us was to see the two distinct communities of Blakewater and Beardwood blended together and not singling out the children from Crosshill for being different.
“We want to promote integration wherever possible.”
Crosshill headteacher Ian Maddison said: “This is fabulous. We have had students in for three days now.
“I’m thrilled with the opportunity our children have in this state-of-the-art 21st-century building.
“I am looking forward to sharing all the facilities.
“It has been a challenging transition from the old school, but all the hard work has paid off.”
Comments are closed on this article.
Comments (21)
7:35pm Fri 14 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
2:16am Sat 15 Sep 12
Stone Island: says...
10:13am Sat 15 Sep 12
Excluded again says...
If your children are embarrassed about being on the same site as children with learning difficulties, then the problem is with how they have been brought up not the school.
12:31pm Sat 15 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
Your comments are regarded as discrimation against children with difficulties of no fault of their own. You never know how lucky you are that it's not your children with severe learning difficulties.
For you to remove yours, you're a bigger idiot!
8:56pm Sat 15 Sep 12
l m h jones says...
11:54am Sun 16 Sep 12
Ewood 82 says...
By the way you write, what you think is, English, and, your dark ages attitude to kids with learning difficulties, you've proven that when it comes to brains man brains -
YOU AINT GOT NON!!!!!!!
12:21pm Sun 16 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
If you go to great lengths to remove your gremlin children from a school that once were educating children with learning difficulties just for the sake of a name, I would not doubt your retarded capability that you would similarily remove your strange offspring and enrol in a land specifically for your alien type where ET and ALF were once attending.
You're not welcome in any Lancashire school, so 4off.
2:11pm Sun 16 Sep 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
6:46pm Sun 16 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
To deliberately target certain children by taking action so it may not be regarded that it's relevant to you, is discrimination. Does Brockhall ring a bell? Would it be sensible for the people of that village to request a name change!
Why is it Ghanto has removed her gremlin children if there are two separate buildings?
8:44pm Sun 16 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
You fancy calling me an idiot in my prescence?
Sen.
12:13am Mon 17 Sep 12
Darwen Malc says...
11:17am Mon 17 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
2:14pm Mon 17 Sep 12
ladysal says...
Crosshills is NOT a separate school; it is an integral part of BCHS. From what I have just read, it can best be viewed as a "house" within the main school structure which just happens to have its own building. There is one management team, one headteacher. Inclusivity is the theme of the school.
So no, there is no call for a separate uniform: the students amalgamated into the new school on the Witton Park site won't have one......
So yes, adamdesk, ghanto is discriminatory in his / her posts and so are you. Why should Crosshill students be stigmatised? Why should that be allowed to continue? Before you spout your thoughts, try and get your facts straight.......
8:31am Tue 18 Sep 12
ladysal says...
?
12:25pm Tue 18 Sep 12
ladysal says...
INTIGERATED SEPERATE PART (which is it: it can't be both.....), SEPERATE NAME (the name isn't seperate: it is called BCHS with Crosshill),
SEPERATE TEACHING (and? There will be separate teachers teaching different subjects, year groups, ability levels through the school),
SPEC IAL TEACHERS (most schools have those, they are called subject specialists),
SPECIAL CARE NEED PUPILS NAME IT AS CROSSHILLS IS CLEARLY DISCRIMINATION BUT SEPERATE UNIFORM FOR CROSSHILLS AND SEPERATE FOR BCHS IS DISCRIMINATION (I have no idea what you are trying to say: the entire sentence doesn't make sense)
WHAT ARE IDITOS NOTHING TO SAY THEN STUR UP (Please, do us a favour: stop shouting, there is no need. Learn to spell and use grammar. Try and put a reasoned argument together before going off on a rant)
At least I'm prepared to research something I know little about before putting in my tuppenyworth.......
12:39pm Tue 18 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
Continue in this pathetic manner and you'll end up with a 5lap across your *kin face!
2:55pm Tue 18 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
3:27pm Tue 18 Sep 12
ladysal says...
No, I don't need a job as a road sweeper thank you.
I leave comments because I enjoy informed, intelligent debate or because somebody says something so outrageous that it winds me up so much I can't help myself.
Guess which category you fall into.......
7:16pm Tue 18 Sep 12
hewdale says...
1:01pm Wed 19 Sep 12
sen c ble says...
I am aware Crosshill did teach these children and still does, but because they have now linked up with other schools to become a super school, the name Crosshill is not welcomed by certain parents, thus the objection. This may be because within friends and families this may be an embarrasment and discomfort.
I am a man of discipline. One insulting word and I will come out with a mouthfull!
8:43pm Wed 19 Sep 12
ghanto says...