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Photo Diary: Conversion of our old gym into new
Sixth Form facilities 2006-07

Having opened the £1.2 million Sports Hall in January 2006, our focus is now on the creation of a new Sixth Form Centre in the former gymnasium. Currently, students squeeze into two commons rooms and the Centre will maximise space with the installation of a mezzanine floor.

Sixth formers on the student council, Dominic Bonham, Katy Humphrey, Adam Jackson and Becky Howard have been liaising with an interior designer regarding furnishings and hope to create the impression of loft-style living.

Upstairs the mezzanine floor will have computer points as a work area and downstairs there will be pool tables and seating areas to relax and dine with the former girls’ changing room being transformed into a sixth form catering facility.

The cost to transform the gym is around £480,000 and the approximate cost to equip the Centre with furniture and 40 computers will be £21,400.

Trevor Elkington, Director of Sixth Form said: “Our sixth form has grown dramatically in recent years and facilities have just not kept pace with the numerical growth. We now have the opportunity to give some of the most deserving and able young people in Rossendale the facilities they deserve and this leaves me very excited about the future.”

	>> Official Opening Ceremony March 2007
>> Read Rossendale Free Press article

see photos for: January - March - April - May - August - September

DECEMBER 2006
The old gym and changing rooms were cleared out, in order to make way for new facilities. Steel beams have been put in place in the gym, where an upstairs mezzanine floor is going to be added.


Steel beams are put into the gym - this will be a second floor.
		< Here you can see where the PE staff offices were...
The old girls' changing room.	The old boys' changing room

JANUARY 2007


On the photos above, you can see above and below the newly filled in second floor, and the stairs that lead up to it.

These photos are views from the second floor.

2ND MARCH 2007


	These photos were taken upstairs on the second level. In the first four photos you can see the exit to go downstairs. The 5th photo shows an entrance to the disabled lift, the 6th - a view facing the other side towards the far end of the gym. The photos on the left are views of where Mr. Elkington's office will be!
		<< These photos on the left show views from downstairs looking up towards the second level. In the first photo you can see the window of Mr. Elkington's office.
The photos below were taken downstairs. - The first and second photos show what used to be the boys' changing rooms - which will now be offices. - The third photo shows a room which will be part of the new kitchen for the Sixth Form. - The fourth photo shows a view to the right - where the store room used to be. - The fifth photo shows the doorway where we used to enter the gym. - The sixth photo is a view underneath the second floor and the tools being used by the workmen.

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16TH APRIL 2007
Here you can see that ceilings are being put in, and the area is starting to be decorated and furnished with notice boards, carpets, bannisters, coloured walls & columns.

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MAY 2007
Here you can see that the area has been furnished further, with new carpets and wooden floors.

AUGUST 2007


			Photographs of the completed and furnished centre taken just before school re-opened after the summer holiday break.

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SEPTEMBER 2007




Finally, photographs of the new centre in use by sixth form students. The first five photos show the new computer suite. The rest of the photos show the students using the new facilities.

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