Staff welcome well-appointed new academy as ‘first-class’

THE first schools to be rebuilt under Hull’s £380m Building Schools for the Future programme have received an “outstanding” report from the staff who will run them.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Aug 2011, 13:58 BST

Developers Balfour Beatty handed over the keys to the new Sirius Academy and Ganton Special School, which share the same site in Anlaby Park Road South alongside a new Education Service for Hearing and Vision facility. The £48.5m academy, which opens for the new term on September 6, caters for 1,450 pupils and 200 post-16 learners. Facilities include a hydrotherapy pool, three multi-use sports pitches and activity spaces which are all available for community use.

School principal, Dr Cathy Taylor, said: “It’s absolutely fantastic. The design is really outstanding.

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“We’ve got first-class facilities, state of the art ICT and technology, which I’m confident will have a huge impact on raising aspirations, and ultimately achievement.

“We are very excited about it. I can’t wait to see the faces of the students. The staff are incredibly excited.

“I don’t think there will be another school in the country that will have the facilities we have got here at Sirius.”

Balfour Beatty is also building the new Kelvin Hall secondary, due to open in April 2012.

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