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Second Darwen superschool planned
9:30am Friday 26th June 2009 in
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- By Catherine Pye » Reporter
A DARWEN secondary school is set to be revolutionised by a £20million cash injection – creating a second superschool for the town.
A whole new section of Darwen Vale High School will be built at its present site after dated extensions are demolished, with the original historic front of the current 1938 building preserved and fully modernised.
Work is scheduled to start in September next year and the school’s 1,200 pupils will all move to the former Moorland High School buildings in Holden Fold while it is under way.
The Moorland school buildings are currently being used by Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, while its new £48 million school is completed in Redearth Road.
Plans are still at an early stage and no specific details about number of classrooms have been released, but the rebuilt school will include ‘super labs’ for science featuring the the latest equipment for investigations.
It will also include ‘flexible’ classrooms for use in projects that examine the relationship between different disciplines, such as the way maths links with science and technology.
And there will also be a special transition area for new pupils in their first year to help them adjust to a ‘big school’, but with the feel of a ‘small school’.
The building work will be carried out as part of the £200m Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme taking place across Blackburn and Darwen. This has been funded by money from central government.
Darwen Vale head teacher Lynn Dunning said: “The possibilities in education and positive outcomes for pupils through the BSF programme are vast and we are entering an incredibly exciting time for the school.
“It will have a huge and long-lasting impact on every pupil’s education and experience of Darwen Vale High School, not only through learning but through the design of the buildings and the facilities available to them.
“We are proud of our school but this will provide an even more stimulating, ground-breaking, happy and secure educational environment which will obtain the best for, and from, each pupil.”
The specialist engineering college will continue under its original name on the temporary site and the whole school will transfer back to the original site in Blackburn Road in September 2012.
Earcroft councillor Trevor Maxfield said the announcement was very exciting.
He said: “It’s good news and in years to come we should have some brilliant educational establishments.
“The amount of money being pumped into education across the borough is phenomenal.”
Jenny Goldthorpe of Dove Lane, Darwen, has children in year 7 and 9 and another due to start at high school in 2010.
She said: “It’s fantastic news. It’s really exciting to be involved with the school at this time and to know that my children will benefit from all the bang-up-to-date facilities.
“They are going to get so much more out of school with this.”
Other BSF schemes in the area include the building of the new East Blackburn Community College on a former golf range in Haslingden Road that will combine Crosshill Special School and Blakewater College.
In the Burnley and Pendle areas, investment under BSF is more established.
The first wave of the programme saw Shuttleworth College open in Padiham, Burnley Campus established to cater for sixth formers and Pendle Vale College and Pendle Community High sharing a site in Nelson.
Comments(15)
whereistedward
says...
11:59am Fri 26 Jun 09
Little Diamond
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2:05pm Fri 26 Jun 09
However calling these schools by other names such as "Super schools"
"Technology Colleges"
or "Academys" is not going to improve educational standards.
To achieve improvements we need to be rid of the Target driven systems that the government force on us at the moment. These systems encourage the wrong kind of people to get on in the Teaching and Medical professions.
In my view teaching should be done by teachers with a passion for passing on knowledge and skills. Definitely not career advancing target chasing box tickers.
Be wary of fancy gift wrap, a new building calling itself an academy instead of a school is still a school.
unknown darwener
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6:23pm Fri 26 Jun 09
amazed
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7:36pm Fri 26 Jun 09
Lifeinthemix
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7:55pm Fri 26 Jun 09
These Academies are Military industrial Complex funded via the Hedge Funds.
They keep children in darkened classrooms without windows or thick blinds, in humid conditions.
forcing children to cease in seeing themselves as heterosexual, to do so is to be homophobic.
The heads of these schools can change the curiculum at will, isolation cells, medical checks without parents knowledge let alone consent.
Militarising children creating what was termed 'Brown Shirts' under Hitler.
The Brown Shirts are then turned against the parents, that means your children are going to be educated to hate you. (SEE GEORGE ORWELL'S FILM 1984)
Today the slogan is 'Green Shirts', and brainwashed with the environment scam and coming mass taxation of the energy use of all people.
In America as I write, these children are taught to keep files on parents for re-cycling misdemenors, smoking, drinking, drugs, arguments etc, and all this information will be collected by the private schools and given to social services.
The academy agenda is absolute outright evil, I have spent a good while researching and placing the information across the country.
Thos who are in power who know what this agenda is about, have written many times to my good self...well I am good some of the time... to thank me for expanding their base knowledge which they are using to fight this corporate takeover.
It is you the parents, grandparents, who need to grasp this information, or our families will be torn apart as they remove children from families at the behest of an irate child teacher or helper who feels your child's non conformity is down to the fact the parents must be abusing the child.
Full terrible details here :
http://lifeinthemix.
org.uk/ark_academies
_school.html
This information needs to be spread like wildfire ladies and gentlemen, for all our sakes.
sidwaddo
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9:36pm Fri 26 Jun 09
Lifeinthemix wrote:Life !!!!!!! I wanted you as Prime Minister Yesterday but your comments tonight are beyond reality , you are one bitter , twisted , **** up ( although well informed and may I say must be intellegent ) human being , I can not work you out , tonights comments are trash to say the very least . Education is paramount . period . Would you rather go back to schooling 40 years ago ? cat'o'nine tails etc Education has to move with the times like everything else and I for one think this is a great step for education and Darwen too !
Hi All. These Academies are Military industrial Complex funded via the Hedge Funds. They keep children in darkened classrooms without windows or thick blinds, in humid conditions. forcing children to cease in seeing themselves as heterosexual, to do so is to be homophobic. The heads of these schools can change the curiculum at will, isolation cells, medical checks without parents knowledge let alone consent. Militarising children creating what was termed 'Brown Shirts' under Hitler. The Brown Shirts are then turned against the parents, that means your children are going to be educated to hate you. (SEE GEORGE ORWELL'S FILM 1984) Today the slogan is 'Green Shirts', and brainwashed with the environment scam and coming mass taxation of the energy use of all people. In America as I write, these children are taught to keep files on parents for re-cycling misdemenors, smoking, drinking, drugs, arguments etc, and all this information will be collected by the private schools and given to social services. The academy agenda is absolute outright evil, I have spent a good while researching and placing the information across the country. Thos who are in power who know what this agenda is about, have written many times to my good self...well I am good some of the time... to thank me for expanding their base knowledge which they are using to fight this corporate takeover. It is you the parents, grandparents, who need to grasp this information, or our families will be torn apart as they remove children from families at the behest of an irate child teacher or helper who feels your child's non conformity is down to the fact the parents must be abusing the child. Full terrible details here : http://lifeinthemix. org.uk/ark_academies _school.html This information needs to be spread like wildfire ladies and gentlemen, for all our sakes.
sidwaddo
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9:40pm Fri 26 Jun 09
Lifeinthemix
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12:31am Sat 27 Jun 09
sidwaddo
Well sir this is exactly how I and those who also made a detailed 18 month research into what the Academy's are all about. Believe me sir, when I tell you I have four children, two of which are still in school.
I wish I could tell you I am having a laugh....but I cannot, this is what is set to be enacted when the academy's demolish the comprehensives and primaries via the chainning system.
They are offering education from 4 to 19, which if they begin the war against Russia, will be from cradle to grave.
You are right to be angry, but please, lay your anger at the feet of those many charities inflicting this 21st century education, I sir am only the poor messenger...and a **** fed up one at that.
Its like **** in the wind trying to get people to see what they do not want to see.
I wish I could just sit back and let it all happen, but I can't, because it is happening.
Squeegy72
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9:31pm Sat 27 Jun 09
amazed wrote:I really don't think you can pick on the spelling of an obviously impressed and improved student when there are spelling mistakes made in one of the headline stories tonight!
unknown darwener ; Well your new school has not taught you how to spell or where capital letters should be placed!! Small case "i" instead of "I","oppotunities" instead of "opportunities" for instance. Maybe just carelessness but be aware of the "spellchecker" (ABC check) above - use it!! 5/10!! Could do better.
I think for a student to comment on how much improved a school is shows that they are being encouraged to define their own individuality and have confidence in their opinions, which in this day and age shows a lot from an educational establishment.
Schools can be too target driven, with many of the lessons being designed to 'succeed in an exam'. What was wrong with the teachers educating so students learnt for their own benefit instead of passing exams????
Slimplynth
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12:28am Mon 29 Jun 09
amazed wrote:Agree Squeegy... I wish I'd had oppotunities to study electronics at school instead o having to leave it til my 20's. There were only 6 or so students wishing to take the electronics (Control & Design) course at Darwen Vale. Ended up doing a Biology degree, it was good but i can't help but think how differently life might have turned out with more choices.
unknown darwener ; Well your new school has not taught you how to spell or where capital letters should be placed!! Small case "i" instead of "I","oppotunities" instead of "opportunities" for instance. Maybe just carelessness but be aware of the "spellchecker" (ABC check) above - use it!! 5/10!! Could do better.
@Amazed:
i think you should have cut the lad some slack. Writing isn't everyone's talent (including 100% of the time; the odd LET reporter)
Excluded
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8:28am Mon 29 Jun 09
I'm worried about the quality of your research.
You say Academies offer education from 4-19. They don't. Academies are secondary schools (occassionally with sixth forms). There is not a single primary academy in the country.
If your research did not manage to find out that basic point, it does make people wonder about the reliability of the rest of it.
DarwenRed
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10:46am Mon 29 Jun 09
whereistedward wrote:You talk some s**t
This is great news, however, the comment of the local ''For Darwen'' Party is a bit hypocritical. They were against the Academy scheme at Sudell Rd / Redearthg Rd. Without an Academy the Building Schools for the Future programme could not have gone ahead. (i.e. Vale would not be receiving this tremendous investment). ''For Darwen'' policies would have meant no investment in Darwen Vale.
hasslem hasslem
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3:03pm Mon 29 Jun 09
amazed wrote:Amazed - fair point with reference to the young person's spelling.
unknown darwener ; Well your new school has not taught you how to spell or where capital letters should be placed!! Small case "i" instead of "I","oppotunities" instead of "opportunities" for instance. Maybe just carelessness but be aware of the "spellchecker" (ABC check) above - use it!! 5/10!! Could do better.
However, you need to use more appropriate punctuation. The use of double exclamation marks is incorrect. It looks cheap and "chavvy"!
Lifeinthemix
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9:42pm Thu 2 Jul 09
Excluded
The chaining system as the public funds are cut will drag all schools into the academy web.... sorry if I did not make this clear
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Blondie says...
10:58am Fri 26 Jun 09
I doubt it.