HRH The Countess of Wessex to officially open St Bart's
St Bartholomew’s School’s new buildings will be opened by HRH The Countess of Wessex on Wednesday 30 March 2011. The Countess will unveil a plaque at a formal opening ceremony to be attended by the whole school, staff and guests. She will also have a tour of St Bart’s and visit a number of lessons in which students of all ages and abilities will demonstrate the breadth of the curriculum, the rich out-of-classroom life and the opportunities the new buildings bring to learning.
Mrs Christina Haddrell, Headteacher at St Bart’s said: “We are delighted to welcome The Countess to our school. The whole school community is a part of this event and we are looking forward to an opportunity to celebrate the benefits brought to education through this fantastic building project.”
The school moved into its new accommodation last November. The redevelopment project followed West Berkshire Council’s decision to invest around £32 million of central government money in St Bart’s, through the Building Schools for the Future programme, to provide a school for the 21st century.
Representatives from the building contractor, Willmott Dixon and architects Scott Brownrigg will also attend the ceremony.
I hope she doesnt park her car along Fifth Road along with all the other cars that belong to students at the school.
Fifth Road is becoming a bit of a nightmare these days, what has happened to the parking or are there more students with cars than before. Both sides of the road are parked up and big stuff has a real job getting through sometimes. Perhaps the school might give some thought to re-opening the gravel car park where the swimming pool was.
Fifth Road is becoming a bit of a nightmare these days, what has happened to the parking or are there more students with cars than before. Both sides of the road are parked up and big stuff has a real job getting through sometimes. Perhaps the school might give some thought to re-opening the gravel car park where the swimming pool was.
According to my daughter who is year 12, there is now insufficient parking for students.
An alternative view would be that there are too many students driving to school.
Don't forget that many live in the villages and may not be served by school buses at the times they are required to be in school. Nevertheless, you may well be right. Presumably there are too many teachers driving to school as well?
I don't see many riding bikes to school. Shame about that, the bike shed would have been the community centre in your day.
Tough one that. I cycle my youngest to school as often as I can. Not always possible sadly, but I'm afraid that if there was any distance involved, I'd be loathe to send my child to school on his bike.... unless he stayed on the pavement. I've had enough near misses myself cycling.
I don't think the car parking area within site is quite finished yet. When it is SOME of the cars will be removed from on-street. The sixth formers will still insist on driving to school though and they are not allowed to park on site any more.
Tough one that. I cycle my youngest to school as often as I can. Not always possible sadly, but I'm afraid that if there was any distance involved, I'd be loathe to send my child to school on his bike.... unless he stayed on the pavement. I've had enough near misses myself cycling.
I agree, I would not even think about my kids going to school on a bike with today's traffic. Too much, too fast and little consideration for cyclists. (I hope this doesn't start the cycling lobby up though, I know how sensitive they are.)
I don't think the car parking area within site is quite finished yet. When it is SOME of the cars will be removed from on-street. The sixth formers will still insist on driving to school though and they are not allowed to park on site any more.
Perhaps some consideration should be given to the parking problem in Fifth road by school staff to determine if it is just lazy students who can't be bothered to walk to school or because they live too far out and are not served by public transport. If it is the latter then the school needs to accomodate their vehicles. Failing that, one side of the road needs double yellow lines.
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