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» A New Sixth Form Centre for September 2007
Having opened the £1.2 million Sports Hall in January 2006, our focus was on the creation of a new Sixth Form Centre in the former gymnasium. Before now, students squeezed into two commons rooms, but the new Centre will maximise space, having installed a mezzanine floor.
Sixth formers on the student council, Dominic Bonham, Katy Humphrey, Adam Jackson and Becky Howard liased with an interior designer regarding furnishings and hoped 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.”
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Opening Ceremony March 2007 » Read Rossendale Free Press article » See photo diary of how the gym was converted into our new Sixth Form Centre |