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Primary school expansion strategy St. Mary’s RC Primary School Chair: Paul Ballatt – Head of Commissioning, Strategy and Performance Children, Schools & Families Dept.

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Page 1: Primary school expansion strategy St. Mary’s RC Primary School Chair: Paul Ballatt – Head of Commissioning, Strategy and Performance Children, Schools

Primary school expansion strategy

St. Mary’s RC Primary School

Chair: Paul Ballatt – Head of Commissioning, Strategy and PerformanceChildren, Schools & Families Dept.

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Councillor Peter Walker Cabinet Member for EducationLondon Borough of Merton

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The Challenge

• Between 2007/8 and 2013/14 there will be a growth in the number of primary school children aged 4 of 30% - 800+

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3 Key factors for expansion strategy

Building on excellent education Sustainable solutions for our schools Value for money

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Result of Borough wide consultation autumn 20107 Schools including St. Mary’s RC agreed to provide extra reception classes in September 2011 and consider permanent expansion

Council budget in March agreed 4-year capital sums for primary school expansion programme

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Tom Procter

Manager of Contracts and School Organisation, Children, Schools & Families Dept.

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Aim

• Rationale for why proposing expansion of St. Mary’s RC

• Legal process

• School’s vision for expansion

• Building feasibility and phasing strategy

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Year children will enter reception

class

Corresponding

Birth figure

Rise from 2007/08

Extra classes (FE – form of

entry)

2007/08 2,612  

2008/09 2,785 173 3FE

2009/10 2,893 281 3FE

2010/11 2,972 360 3FE

2011/12 3,250 638 7FE

2012/13 3,320 708 2FE

2013/14 3,419 807 3FE

Birth rate increase = additional primary school places

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Why St. Mary’s?- Overall criteria in selecting schools

• Educational standards – good & outstanding schools• Parental preference - popular and over-subscribed

schools• Smaller schools expand where feasible• Location – where places most in demand• Physical constraints of existing school sites • Value for money and affordability• Balance of faith based schools

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Legal process for St. Mary’s RCDecision made• Extra reception class in September 2011

This consultation on permanent expansion from September 2012

• Statutory consultation to 11 May > Consider > Publish a statutory notice > Decision > Statutory duty to implement

• Decision is after planning permission granted for building or “subject to planning permission”

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Sarah Crouch Headteacher, St. Mary’s School

School vision for expansion

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Better teachingopportunities

Increased senseof community

One school, One building

More resources

Places forCatholic children

More space

To be the best that we can be

What can we gain?

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Facilitiese.g. ICT suite

Calm learningenvironment

The way allchildren integrate

Playgroundspace

Ethos

To be thebest thatwe can be

What we don’t want to lose.

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Building project

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Existing site and surrounding

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Building project

Value for money for short term and long term solutions

• Short term – extra reception class

• Longer term – school gradually providing for 7 extra classes (210 pupils) from 2011/12 to 2017/18

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Feasibility study – key questions

• Council building used in the short term?

• Council building used or demolished in longer term?

• Feasible to connect to existing school building?

• School improvement/value for money/affordability

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Feasibility study – priorities for school

• Additional 7 classrooms

• 2nd hall/larger hall for assemblies

• Early years play

• Whole school play/PE

• Appropriate ICT facilities

• Appropriate staff facilities

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Existing site close up

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Phase 2 – By Sep 2012

Phase 3 – By Sep 2014

Phase 1 – ground floor of building for 2 classrooms until summer 2014 at latest

Phase 3 – Building demolished for play space by Sep 2014

Phase 1 – staff car park becomes playground

Building Expansion strategy – DRAFT feasibility layouts

Note – this is a draft indicative layout from the feasibility study – not a final layout plan

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What questions do we have for the council?

• What happens if the budget is not available?• Timing-if the two classes are not ready for September, what happens? How would this

be funded?• Why are we not building two new Reception classes straight away?• How much say do we have on details and how much say do we have on bigger picture

decisions?• Can we say no?• Are there enough children?• What will the length of the building programme be?• Will the council give a guarantee to complete the chosen option?• Is there adequate funding for heating, lighting and resources?• Why are we not having a prefab classroom rather than the social services building?• Will we have foundations that can take an extra storey?• Is the social services building structurally sound?• Is it possible for parents to meet with the building team?• How are the Council going to communicate once everything starts?• Will we get to retain any budget surplus?• How will noise disruption affect children?• When will the Council decide which option to go with?• Eco friendly build? Solar panels?• What did the Council learn from expanding Holy Trinity?

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Agreed reception class expansions 21 FE total - 630 extra reception places in 6 years)

Year

Forms of entry (FE) increase Schools

2008/09 3FEWimbledon Chase, Holy Trinity

and St. Thomas of Canterbury RC

2009/10 3FEBenedict, Hollymount and Joseph

Hood

2010/11 3FEBishop Gilpin CE (1 yr), Aragon

and Cranmer

2011/12 7FE

All Saints CE, Gorringe Park, Liberty, St. Marys RC, Singlegate,

William Morris and Wimbledon Park, Plus

2012/13 2FE Dundonald? & one to confirm

2013/14 3FE To confirm