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Andrew Langley has won the North West Apprentice of the Year. Andrew who is employed by Bowker Ltd is currently working at Sir John Thursby Community College and also worked at Burnley Campus throughout the project. Andrew was selected from over 1,000 electrical apprentices in the North West following a recommendation by his training officer and a detailed interview regarding his technical expertise and experience. The judges said that he stood out above all the others and this is due to the experience he has gained working on the BSF schemes and the excellent training received from his employer. Andrew will now represent the North West in the national final at the Tower of London in February.
If you would like any further details about the Skills Legacy Programme which endeavors to employ local apprentices and trades people on Lancashire BSF please contact our partner Catalyst Lend Lease on 01282 714126
Planners have agreed to visit three sites earmarked for brand new schools in Burnley.
Members of Lancashire County Council's development control committee, meeting today, agreed unanimously to inspect the sites before deciding on planning permission.
The schemes under consideration are:
Prospective parents are invited to an open evening at the two brand new schools in Nelson. The £29 million joint site of Pendle Vale College and Pendle Community High School and College will be on show from 6.30pm to 9pm on Monday 6th October 2008 .
See pictures and report in the (External) Burnley Express .
See Lancashire County Council Press releaseChange of Name for Sixth Form
From 1st September 2008, Burnley Schools' Sixth Form will become Thomas Whitham Sixth Form. For more details see item in the (External) Burnley Express .
Ofsted Success for Blessed Trinity RC College
See article in the (External) Lancashire Telegraph
Celebration at the Faith Centre
Burnley and Pendle Faith Centre is planning a celebration to mark the end of its second year in operation. Everyone is invited to join in at the centre on Barden Lane between noon and 3pm on Thursday 10th July . The celebration is on the theme: "Bringing People Together, Changing Lives... and Life" . There will be a buffet lunch and art, drama, music and poetry performed by students from schools across Burnley and Pendle.
Ofsted success for Burnley Schools' Sixth Form
See the following Newspapers Coverage
Government Inspectors have approved Lancashire County Council's application to compulsory purchase land off Towneley Holmes Road in order to facilitate the erection of a new building for Unity College . The decision follows a four-day public inquiry regarding the application which was held at Burnley Town Hall last August. The inspector's decision will enable building work to commence this year so that students can transfer to the new buildings as soon as possible.
County Councillor Marcus Johnstone said: "We thank the inspector for his thorough inquiry and hope that the whole community will now unite behind his decision."
Unity College Headteacher Sally Cryer added: "We have always worked very well with the local community and we're looking forward to working with them to make sure the new school is a facility we all use."
To see the full report go to (External) http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=12388
Unit College
A community open event will be arranged in the near future so that anyone interested can find out more about the plans for the new buildings. Details will be posted on this website as soon as they are available.
Students from nursery age to the sixth form will meet later this month to unveil a ceremonial foundation stone at the new Burnley Campus. The event will also involve the burying of a time capsule.
Five educational establishments are moving to the site in September – Burnley Schools’ Sixth Form, Barden Primary School, Elm Street Nursery, Barden Lane Nursery, and Holly Grove School.
A child from each will take part in the foundation stone unveiling on Monday January 28 and County Councillor Vali Patel, Cabinet Member for Schools, will be master of ceremonies. When the campus opens it will also house a faith centre, a public library, a coffee bar, and sports and performance facilities that are open to the community.
County Councillor Patel said: “I am really looking forward to this event. Burnley Campus is a facility for the whole community and that is reflected by the age range of the children and young people who will be unveiling the foundation stone.”
Inspectors from the government organisation OFSTED have praised the work of teachers and governors at Pendle Vale College in Nelson. See coverage in the Lancashire Telegraph:
Concerned parents and carers of students at Hameldon Community College in Burnley are invited to drop in and talk to staff at two specially arranged events before the start of next term.
Some parents kept children off school before Christmas following an incident on December 14 but security has been reviewed during the Christmas break. The meetings are as follows:
Variations to the planning permissions obtained for three new school sites currently under construction in East Lancashire will be submitted shortly. Lancashire County Council's strategic partner has drawn up amended plans to deal with changes that have occurred as detailed design of the projects has progressed.
The three sites at Shuttleworth College on Burnley Road, Padiham, Pendle Community High School and Pendle Vale College on Oxford Road, Nelson and Burnley Campus on Barden Lane, are part of the county council's Building Schools for the Future programme. Members of the public will be able to view the plans as part of the statutory planning process. The plans will be discussed at a meeting of the county council's development control committee after the statutory consultation period.
School Building Project Creates Jobs for Trainees (.pdf 123kb
Plans to build a new secondary school in Brierfield are to go ahead after a bid to make the proposed site a protected town green was turned down. The school currently operates on two sites - Elland Road in Brierfield and Hibson Road in Nelson. Construction of the new building was due to start in the summer on the Bent Head playing fields, off Halifax Road, in Brierfield. This morning, councillors from all parties on the County Council's Commons and Town Greens Sub Committee agreed that the playing field did not qualify for the special status.
Vali Patel, Lancashire County Council's cabinet member for schools, said:
This is great news for the pupils and staff of Marsden Heights Community College who, I know, are anxious to move to the new facilities as soon as possible. We will start talking to our building partner straight away to see how soon we can move onto the site. I want to reassure the local community that during construction alternative local facilities will be made available to the sports teams who have been playing on Bent Head. When the new school is completed, we will be upgrading and handing over the current school site on Hibson Road to Pendle Borough Council for use as a public playing field. The new recreation ground is less than three minutes walk from Bent Head and has magnificent uninterrupted views of Pendle.
Mike Tull, Head Teacher of Marsden Heights Community College, said:
I am delighted that this barrier has been removed and we can go ahead with our new building at Bent Head. I look forward to seeing this through to completion and to moving in to the brand new school as soon as possible.
Open Countryside
View from the proposed new public playing field on Hibson Road.
Lancashire County Council's Commons and Town Greens sub-committee meets next Wednesday, 28 November 2007. The agenda will include an application to make Bent Head playing field, in Brierfield, a town green.
Bent Head has been chosen as the site for one of the new BSF Schools - Marsden Heights Community College - which is currently located on two sites (Elland Road in Brierfield and Hibson Road in Nelson).
The meeting will commence at 10.30 am in Cabinet Room C at County Hall, Preston. Papers for the sub-committee will be available at
Ramadan Events at the Faith Centre.
Shuttleworth College Foundation Stone Ceremony
The cohort who starts in September will move to the purpose-built, state-of-the-art facilities at the beginning of their second year.
Sixth Form Headteacher Stuart Smith said:
This is a very exciting opportunity for young people in the local area to access such brilliant facilities. Anyone interested in joining us in September should contact us at the Sixth Form. We are thrilled with our first set of excellent A level results with nearly 40 percent of grades being at A or B and with three students Oxbridge bound.
Students are currently based at Heald Road and will move to the new Burnley Campus just around the corner on Barden Lane in September 2008.
Local MP, Gordon Prentice, will be visiting Pendle Vale Community College this week to meet staff and see progress on the new site.
The MP said:
"Work is under way on the new building and I am looking forward to getting my first look at the detailed plans and then seeing progress on the ground.
"This is a hugely exciting project for Nelson. Building Schools for the Future is the biggest single government investment in school buildings for 50 years and Pendle Vale College, with Pendle Community High School, is at the forefront of it."
Readers of the Lancashire Telegraph voted strongly in favour of the Building Schools for the Future programme in an (External) online poll . More than 77 percent of those who took part answered "yes" to the question "Are you in favour of the Building Schools for the Future plans in East Lancashire?"
Lancashire Firms benefit from BSF (.pdf 23kb)
East Lancs Schools help Pakistani children (.pdf 130kb)
Read the latest newsletter with a contact list for the BSF Schools
The proposals below were published on 12th May 2006 and the Authority has determined to implement them as published. Please see Cabinet Member's Report for further details.
Job vacancies for the six new schools in Burnley.
Planning Open Evenings for the Three Phase One Schools
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Outline Planning Applications have now been submitted for the following schools:
Latest Staff Communication Newsletter
Find out about the Transition Details for new Burnley and Pendle Schools.
Bidders Day - see a report on this event
OJEU Notice inviting tenders for the project issued
Three new booklets published.
See the report showing the Draft Comments on representations made regarding the published proposals
Report to the Cabinet Member for Education (.pdf 392kb)
Statutory Notices issued for BSF in Burnley and Pendle
Lancashire's BSF in Burnley and Pendle Project recently underwent an independent review - an important process which will help guide the next steps of the project. The conclusion reached by the Review Team was:
"The Project is in very good condition and is strongly positioned for a successful outcome. There is strong general support from politicians, officers, schools and the wider stakeholder community, with acceptance that the project will meet education and regeneration challenges in Pendle and Burnley. There is a clear understanding of the need to resource the project adequately, reflected in the current project team structure, recruitment plans and financial allocation."
See the recently distributed newsletter on BSF in Burnley and Pendle
See the report to the Cabinet Member for Education on 21st October 2004, which explains the changes made in the light of public responses and further discussions.
Appendix A shows the report submitted on 17th August 2004 which gives a summary of responses to the public consultation
Appendix B shows the geographical priority areas for Burnley
Appendix C shows the geographical priority areas for Pendle
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