Building Schools for the Future
Encyclopedia
Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is the name of the previous UK Government's investment programme in secondary school
buildings in England
. The program is very ambitious in its costs, timescales and objectives, with politicians from all English political parties supportive of the principle but questioning the wisdom and cost effectiveness of the scheme.
The delivery of the BSF programme is overseen by Partnerships for Schools
(PfS), a non departmental public body formed through a joint venture between the Department for Children, Schools and Families
(DCSF) (formerly the Department for Education and Skills), Partnerships UK
and private sector
partners. Fourteen Local Education Authorities
were asked to take part in the Government's first wave of the Building Schools for the Future programme for the fiscal year 2005/6. There are now (December 2009) 96 LAs in the programme.
In 2007 the programme was complemented by the announcement of a Primary Capital Programme, with £1.9 billion to spend on 675 building projects for primary schools in England over three years.
On 5 July 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced that following a review, the Building Schools for the Future programme was to be scrapped. BSF projects which had not achieved the status of 'financial close' would not proceed, meaning that 715 school revamps already signed up to the scheme would not now go ahead. He also announced that a further 123 academy schemes were to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
, who joined from Norfolk County Council, where he had been CEO for 10 years. Byles continues to lead PfS.
Initially all Local Authorities (LAs) had been placed in a national programme consisting of 15 waves. The programme has not been proceeding as rapidly as had been expected and both the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and Partnerships for Schools (PfS) began looking closely at Local Authorities' capacity and readiness to deliver projects. During the Spring of 2008 the DCSF consulted on the management of future waves of BSF and subsequently invited all LAs to submit an Expression of Interest to joint the BSF programme sooner than the original programme might have indicated. The announcement of the new programme arrangements was made on 2 March 2009 and at subsequent briefings to Local Authorities it was made clear by PfS that demonstrable "readiness to deliver" is to be a key condition for future pledges of funding. BSF Programme
A tranche of forty Local Authorities were invited to make a "Readiness to Deliver" submission by 8 May 2009. Of those that did only Hampshire, Barnet, Bolton, Peterborough, Wigan and Sunderland were successful. In early August 2009 the Authorities that had been unsuccessful, as well as the Authorities who had delayed making a submission, were advised that all submissions for the remaining twelve places to be allocated during the financial year ending on 31 March 2010 were to be made by 17 September 2009. On 30 November 2009 it was announced that eleven local authorities – Brent, Darlington, Devon, Havering, Kingston, Croydon, Norfolk, Plymouth, Sefton, Wakefield, and Warrington – will be joining the BSF programme for the first time, with another two – Lancashire and Tameside – starting the next phase of their BSF schemes. Planning and building on these schemes will begin between January and March 2010 and brings the total number of local authorities in England which are active in BSF to 96.
The revised management arrangements for BSF have evidently reinforced the DCSF's faith in PfS as the Minister for Schools announced in June 2009 that PfS is to assume responsibility for the management and delivery of all school building and refurbishment programmes. Day-to-day responsibility of all schools capital programmes, including the Primary Capital Programme, transferred from the DCSF to PfS on 1 October 2009.
The National Audit Office
has noted management issues regarding problems in meeting targets, overuse of expensive consultants, and high staff costs (the Chief Executive and top four directors receive about £750,000 pa in total).
There is considerable conjecture, given remarks from Michael Gove
, Shadow Education Secretary, about what direction the BSF programme may take - and what the role of Partnerships for Schools might be - should there be a change of national government in the 2010 general election
.
Thus 23 Local Authorities (LAs) will initially have access to £6.5 million each in order to refurbish a primary school, before widening access to an overall budget of £1.9 billion, with the expectation of starting 675 primary school building projects over the next three years. In November 2008 41 additional LAs had their Strategies for Change accepted (green status) and thus their PCP funding for 2009/10 and 2010/11 approved. 92 LAs were invited to submit further information (amber status) and only had their 2009/10 funding approved and 15 LAs (red status) were required to address specific issues in their Strategy before any funding was approved.
Tony Blair
said the investment "will see the entire secondary school building stock upgraded and refurbished in the greatest school renewal programme in British history."
Capital funding available for investment in school buildings has risen sharply from £683 million in 1996-97 to £3.8 billion in 2003-04; this further increases to £4.5 billion in 2004-05 and to £5.1 billion in 2005-06, £9.3 billion over 2008-11, and £8.2 billion in 2011,
ultimately costing £45 billion over 15 years to 20 years in 15 'waves', or groups of authorities. BSF will be about half conventional and half Private Finance Initiative
funded. Of the £2.2 billion for BSF, £1.2 billion (55.5%) will be covered by Public Finance Initiative (PFI) credits. The Government plans to spend £6.3 billion on schools in 2007-08, a sixfold increase in real terms on the £683 million that was available in 1996-97 a decade prior. Around two-thirds of this funding will be spent on projects outside BSF.
Funding associated with BSF is not just limited to construction and equipment in new schools built under its project, but also improving facilities at existing schools, such as providing schools with direct capital funding to spend on buildings and ICT
.
Depending on their size, primary and secondary schools are receiving about £34,000 and £113,000 respectively during 2007-08 for these initiatives, which equates to around £1 billion across English schools.
While promoted as a huge investment in public services within Secondary Education
, it may in fact be the reverse, by allowing a consortium made up of a financiers, construction companies and IT companies to take away control of public assets from the local authority.
This may handicap future changes, as designers currently face difficulties in trying to predict how learning environments will evolve, exacerbated by poor levels of participation by governors, teachers, pupils, and the community in the design process. The scale of the building programme is far larger than the capacity of the current pool of experienced architects and designers, while the educators running the developments have very little prior experience of commissioning such major construction works before. There is little sharing of best practice and learning between authorities, schools, contractors, suppliers and others involved in BSF, and timescales that discourage thorough up-front planning.
The funds provided under this programme are used for materials and building infrastructure (usually including repairs and on-going maintenance) whilst funding provided for teaching continues in the normal way, except in the case of academies where funding comes directly from the Secretary of State. A consequence of the PFI element of the programme is that recurrent and strategic maintenance of school buildings is addressed within the contract, which reverses the tendency for school governing bodies to under-allocate funds for these aspects of asset management, leading to high levels of backlog maintenance existing at many schools.
Bidders for funding claim that the work needed to put together a bid is onerous and very costly, and requires the navigation of many government bodies. The coordinating body, Partnerships for Schools, is reportedly focused on construction procurement without a full understanding of all the other factors involved.
There have been accusations that the relationship between the quality of infrastructure and the quality of pupil education has not been clearly demonstrated; many of the schools at the top of the league tables are ancient schools with mostly ancient buildings. The House of Commons Select Committee has expressed concerns that, whilst this investment in spaces to support learning is unprecedented, the enormous scale of the project is not being managed to ensure that its scope and aims remain appropriate. There have been no clear or consistent objectives set down to judge how well the project is progressing, or to establish if this is the best way to spend £45 billion on education. 800 schools most in need had already been prioritised and refurbished in the years immediately before this programme started; it was unclear what the current need is, and how the money previously spent would fit in with the broad untargetted approach of BSF.
The selection of some schools for demolition and rebuilding has been controversial; notably there have been criticisms in the architectural press over the demolition of the brutalist Pimlico School
, with many calls for the building to be protected by being placed on the register of listed buildings. The designs of 10 of the fist 11 schools, including Pimlico, have been granted planning permission even though they have been described by CABE
as 'mediocre' or 'not yet good enough'. They noted that it has been possible to be selected for a PFI scheme without a high quality design.
The upgrade programme is taking place at a time when building standards are being substantially rewritten to incorporate improved energy efficiency and green construction methods. Schools are claimed to emit about 15% of the public sector
's carbon footprint
in the UK. New schools and refurbishment projects are required to perform an assessment in accordance with the Building Research Establishment
's BREEAM
Schools standard that checks against environmental performance targets for new and refurbished school buildings. However there are concerns that commercial imperatives will mean that there are no incentives to exceed these standards, and the subsequent works are mainly being designed against the cheaper but less energy-efficient old building standards, with very little cash being set aside to meet pending standards. This may well change as schools work towards the objectives set out in the Sustainable Schools Strategy and also be influenced by the findings of the Zero Carbon Task Force.
To counter some of this criticism and to celebrate the many positive aspects of the BSF programme, Partnerships for Schools hosted in November 2008 the first annual "Excellence in BSF Awards". Awards were made for a wide range of aspects of the initiative. Full details of the awards are available at the PfS website
in Worcestershire
will be part of the national school upgrading process from Building Schools the Future. The Plans have also been involved with local sponsors and LEA funding to provide a £130,000,000 (One Hundred and thirty Million) to Re-build, extend and modernise 5 Secondary Schools and approximately 10 primary schools. The Wyre Forest area of Worcestershire is a Sub-Rural settlement of 3 towns, Kidderminster
being the largest, Stourport being the second largest and Bewdley
on Severn being the smallest. The Schools that are part of the BSF 2013 rebuild plans include:
Primary Schools Include:
In 2008, Due to a Tier change in the Wyre Forest causing High Schools to Change in to Secondary, The Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre
was provided with a 4 million pound, state of the art modular Building. The look, sustainability and practicality are some of the reasons that the Modular Building has influenced other new major building projects including BSF, in places such as Birmingham
, London
and Staffordshire
. The New Projects in Bristol such as Bridge Learning Campus and many new primary schools has been based on the modular building at Bewdley.
The BSF programme has provided funding for the construction of entirely new schools and colleges, as well as rebuilding existing ones and providing ICT funding to non-BSF, new build schools:
A number of BSF schools have also been funded as "One School Pathfinders", in Local Authorities (LA) that were in later waves of the programme. These projects have helped to build capacity and competence in those LAs, as well to provide exemplars in sustainability and science (Project Faraday).
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
buildings in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The program is very ambitious in its costs, timescales and objectives, with politicians from all English political parties supportive of the principle but questioning the wisdom and cost effectiveness of the scheme.
The delivery of the BSF programme is overseen by Partnerships for Schools
Partnerships for Schools
Partnerships for Schools is the joint venture company that was set up in 2004 to deliver the UK's Building Schools for the Future programme...
(PfS), a non departmental public body formed through a joint venture between the Department for Children, Schools and Families
Department for Children, Schools and Families
The Department for Children, Schools and Families was a department of the UK government, between 2007 and 2010, responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education...
(DCSF) (formerly the Department for Education and Skills), Partnerships UK
Partnerships UK
Parnerships UK was an organisation responsible for furthering public-private partnerships in the United Kingdom.-Origins:In July 1997 a private finance initiative taskforce was established within the Treasury to provide central co-ordination for the roll-out of PFI...
and private sector
Private sector
In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...
partners. Fourteen Local Education Authorities
Local Education Authority
A local education authority is a local authority in England and Wales that has responsibility for education within its jurisdiction...
were asked to take part in the Government's first wave of the Building Schools for the Future programme for the fiscal year 2005/6. There are now (December 2009) 96 LAs in the programme.
In 2007 the programme was complemented by the announcement of a Primary Capital Programme, with £1.9 billion to spend on 675 building projects for primary schools in England over three years.
On 5 July 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced that following a review, the Building Schools for the Future programme was to be scrapped. BSF projects which had not achieved the status of 'financial close' would not proceed, meaning that 715 school revamps already signed up to the scheme would not now go ahead. He also announced that a further 123 academy schemes were to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Management
The BSF programme had historically been dogged by sporadic or no management at the top, with Richard Bowker (Chair and Chief Executive of the Strategic Rail Authority) abandoning his post just eight months into the role. However, Bowker was replaced in November 2006 by Tim BylesTim Byles
Tim Byles CBE, joined Partnerships for Schools as Chief Executive in November 2006. He was previously Chief Executive of Norfolk County Council, where his achievements included raising the council’s performance substantially, creating a wide range of public private partnerships for improved service...
, who joined from Norfolk County Council, where he had been CEO for 10 years. Byles continues to lead PfS.
Initially all Local Authorities (LAs) had been placed in a national programme consisting of 15 waves. The programme has not been proceeding as rapidly as had been expected and both the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and Partnerships for Schools (PfS) began looking closely at Local Authorities' capacity and readiness to deliver projects. During the Spring of 2008 the DCSF consulted on the management of future waves of BSF and subsequently invited all LAs to submit an Expression of Interest to joint the BSF programme sooner than the original programme might have indicated. The announcement of the new programme arrangements was made on 2 March 2009 and at subsequent briefings to Local Authorities it was made clear by PfS that demonstrable "readiness to deliver" is to be a key condition for future pledges of funding. BSF Programme
A tranche of forty Local Authorities were invited to make a "Readiness to Deliver" submission by 8 May 2009. Of those that did only Hampshire, Barnet, Bolton, Peterborough, Wigan and Sunderland were successful. In early August 2009 the Authorities that had been unsuccessful, as well as the Authorities who had delayed making a submission, were advised that all submissions for the remaining twelve places to be allocated during the financial year ending on 31 March 2010 were to be made by 17 September 2009. On 30 November 2009 it was announced that eleven local authorities – Brent, Darlington, Devon, Havering, Kingston, Croydon, Norfolk, Plymouth, Sefton, Wakefield, and Warrington – will be joining the BSF programme for the first time, with another two – Lancashire and Tameside – starting the next phase of their BSF schemes. Planning and building on these schemes will begin between January and March 2010 and brings the total number of local authorities in England which are active in BSF to 96.
The revised management arrangements for BSF have evidently reinforced the DCSF's faith in PfS as the Minister for Schools announced in June 2009 that PfS is to assume responsibility for the management and delivery of all school building and refurbishment programmes. Day-to-day responsibility of all schools capital programmes, including the Primary Capital Programme, transferred from the DCSF to PfS on 1 October 2009.
The National Audit Office
National Audit Office
National Audit Office can refer to:* Australian National Audit Office* National Audit Office * National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China* Swedish National Audit Office...
has noted management issues regarding problems in meeting targets, overuse of expensive consultants, and high staff costs (the Chief Executive and top four directors receive about £750,000 pa in total).
There is considerable conjecture, given remarks from Michael Gove
Michael Gove
Michael Andrew Gove, MP is a British politician, who currently serves as the Secretary of State for Education and as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the Surrey Heath constituency. He is also a published author and former journalist.Born in Edinburgh, Gove was raised in Aberdeen...
, Shadow Education Secretary, about what direction the BSF programme may take - and what the role of Partnerships for Schools might be - should there be a change of national government in the 2010 general election
General election
In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...
.
Primary Education
Primary schools were initially not included in BSF, although in March 2006 it was announced that a parallel programme - the Primary Capital Programme (PCP) - would be starting for primary schools and schools for primary-age special needs pupils. Rather than allocating money by authority in waves, it is intended that there will be regional pilot schemes in 2008, leading to a broader approach whereby all authorities can apply for funding from 2009. Funding to Local Authorities will only be confirmed once they have submitted and had approved their 'Strategy for Change' (SfC) that describes how they will address the PCP priorities.Thus 23 Local Authorities (LAs) will initially have access to £6.5 million each in order to refurbish a primary school, before widening access to an overall budget of £1.9 billion, with the expectation of starting 675 primary school building projects over the next three years. In November 2008 41 additional LAs had their Strategies for Change accepted (green status) and thus their PCP funding for 2009/10 and 2010/11 approved. 92 LAs were invited to submit further information (amber status) and only had their 2009/10 funding approved and 15 LAs (red status) were required to address specific issues in their Strategy before any funding was approved.
Secondary Education
The BSF programme involves the decentralisation of funds to Local Education Partnerships (LEPs) in order to build and improve secondary school buildings. However, the LEPs will not only be responsible for the construction of the buildings but also for co-ordinating and overseeing the educational transformation and community regeneration that the investment can support. The private sector LEP partner(s) will introduce capital and expertise. With investments of over £2 billion in the first year, across an estimated 200 schools through the country, it has been claimed as the single biggest government investment programme in education for over 50 years. The then- Prime MinisterPrime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...
Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
said the investment "will see the entire secondary school building stock upgraded and refurbished in the greatest school renewal programme in British history."
Capital funding available for investment in school buildings has risen sharply from £683 million in 1996-97 to £3.8 billion in 2003-04; this further increases to £4.5 billion in 2004-05 and to £5.1 billion in 2005-06, £9.3 billion over 2008-11, and £8.2 billion in 2011,
ultimately costing £45 billion over 15 years to 20 years in 15 'waves', or groups of authorities. BSF will be about half conventional and half Private Finance Initiative
Private Finance Initiative
The private finance initiative is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital...
funded. Of the £2.2 billion for BSF, £1.2 billion (55.5%) will be covered by Public Finance Initiative (PFI) credits. The Government plans to spend £6.3 billion on schools in 2007-08, a sixfold increase in real terms on the £683 million that was available in 1996-97 a decade prior. Around two-thirds of this funding will be spent on projects outside BSF.
Funding associated with BSF is not just limited to construction and equipment in new schools built under its project, but also improving facilities at existing schools, such as providing schools with direct capital funding to spend on buildings and ICT
ICT (education)
Information and communication technologies in education deal with the use of information and communication technologies within educational technology.-Purpose:...
.
Depending on their size, primary and secondary schools are receiving about £34,000 and £113,000 respectively during 2007-08 for these initiatives, which equates to around £1 billion across English schools.
Criticism
Most of the major new building works are PFI-funded, which takes the construction and facilities management (but not the education provision) out of the financial control of Local Education Authorities because the construction and facilities management of a school becomes a source of revenue for the consortia involved for up to 30 years, even if the school is no longer needed.While promoted as a huge investment in public services within Secondary Education
Secondary education
Secondary education is the stage of education following primary education. Secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education and in many countries it is entirely compulsory. The next stage of education is usually college or university...
, it may in fact be the reverse, by allowing a consortium made up of a financiers, construction companies and IT companies to take away control of public assets from the local authority.
This may handicap future changes, as designers currently face difficulties in trying to predict how learning environments will evolve, exacerbated by poor levels of participation by governors, teachers, pupils, and the community in the design process. The scale of the building programme is far larger than the capacity of the current pool of experienced architects and designers, while the educators running the developments have very little prior experience of commissioning such major construction works before. There is little sharing of best practice and learning between authorities, schools, contractors, suppliers and others involved in BSF, and timescales that discourage thorough up-front planning.
The funds provided under this programme are used for materials and building infrastructure (usually including repairs and on-going maintenance) whilst funding provided for teaching continues in the normal way, except in the case of academies where funding comes directly from the Secretary of State. A consequence of the PFI element of the programme is that recurrent and strategic maintenance of school buildings is addressed within the contract, which reverses the tendency for school governing bodies to under-allocate funds for these aspects of asset management, leading to high levels of backlog maintenance existing at many schools.
Bidders for funding claim that the work needed to put together a bid is onerous and very costly, and requires the navigation of many government bodies. The coordinating body, Partnerships for Schools, is reportedly focused on construction procurement without a full understanding of all the other factors involved.
There have been accusations that the relationship between the quality of infrastructure and the quality of pupil education has not been clearly demonstrated; many of the schools at the top of the league tables are ancient schools with mostly ancient buildings. The House of Commons Select Committee has expressed concerns that, whilst this investment in spaces to support learning is unprecedented, the enormous scale of the project is not being managed to ensure that its scope and aims remain appropriate. There have been no clear or consistent objectives set down to judge how well the project is progressing, or to establish if this is the best way to spend £45 billion on education. 800 schools most in need had already been prioritised and refurbished in the years immediately before this programme started; it was unclear what the current need is, and how the money previously spent would fit in with the broad untargetted approach of BSF.
The selection of some schools for demolition and rebuilding has been controversial; notably there have been criticisms in the architectural press over the demolition of the brutalist Pimlico School
Pimlico School
Pimlico Academy is a secondary school in the Pimlico area of Westminster, London. The school is a specialist Arts College.-Architecture:The previous school building was designed by John Bancroft of the Greater London Council's architecture department and was built in 1967-70...
, with many calls for the building to be protected by being placed on the register of listed buildings. The designs of 10 of the fist 11 schools, including Pimlico, have been granted planning permission even though they have been described by CABE
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment was an executive non-departmental public body of the UK government, established in 1999. It was funded by both the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Communities and Local Government.-Function:CABE was the...
as 'mediocre' or 'not yet good enough'. They noted that it has been possible to be selected for a PFI scheme without a high quality design.
The upgrade programme is taking place at a time when building standards are being substantially rewritten to incorporate improved energy efficiency and green construction methods. Schools are claimed to emit about 15% of the public sector
Public sector
The public sector, sometimes referred to as the state sector, is a part of the state that deals with either the production, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether national, regional or local/municipal.Examples of public sector activity range...
's carbon footprint
Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint has historically been defined as "the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person.". However, calculating a carbon footprint which conforms to this definition is often impracticable due to the large amount of data required, which is...
in the UK. New schools and refurbishment projects are required to perform an assessment in accordance with the Building Research Establishment
Building Research Establishment
The Building Research Establishment is a former UK government establishment that carries out research, consultancy and testing for the construction and built environment sectors in the United Kingdom...
's BREEAM
BREEAM
BRE Environmental Assessment Method is a voluntary measurement rating for green buildings that was established in the UK by the Building Research Establishment . Since its inception it has since grown in scope and geographically, being exported in various guises across the globe...
Schools standard that checks against environmental performance targets for new and refurbished school buildings. However there are concerns that commercial imperatives will mean that there are no incentives to exceed these standards, and the subsequent works are mainly being designed against the cheaper but less energy-efficient old building standards, with very little cash being set aside to meet pending standards. This may well change as schools work towards the objectives set out in the Sustainable Schools Strategy and also be influenced by the findings of the Zero Carbon Task Force.
To counter some of this criticism and to celebrate the many positive aspects of the BSF programme, Partnerships for Schools hosted in November 2008 the first annual "Excellence in BSF Awards". Awards were made for a wide range of aspects of the initiative. Full details of the awards are available at the PfS website
District BSF Plans
Secondary and Primary Schools in the district of the Wyre ForestWyre Forest
Wyre Forest is a large, semi-natural woodland and forest which straddles the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England.The Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire takes its name from the forest, despite the fact that much of the woodland does not lie within the district's boundaries, but...
in Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...
will be part of the national school upgrading process from Building Schools the Future. The Plans have also been involved with local sponsors and LEA funding to provide a £130,000,000 (One Hundred and thirty Million) to Re-build, extend and modernise 5 Secondary Schools and approximately 10 primary schools. The Wyre Forest area of Worcestershire is a Sub-Rural settlement of 3 towns, Kidderminster
Kidderminster
Kidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...
being the largest, Stourport being the second largest and Bewdley
Bewdley
Bewdley is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England, along the Severn Valley a few miles to the west of Kidderminster...
on Severn being the smallest. The Schools that are part of the BSF 2013 rebuild plans include:
- Baxter CollegeBaxter CollegeBaxter College is a state comprehensive mixed secondary school located in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. Prior to September 2002 the school was known as Harry Cheshire High School. The school provides education for pupils aged 11 to 18 years, and offers a wide range of courses at GCSE and...
, KidderminsterKidderminsterKidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...
- To Be Rebuilt, 2013
- The Bewdley School and Sixth Form CentreThe Bewdley School and Sixth Form CentreThe Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school in Bewdley, serving north-west Worcestershire, England. Its campus is very close to the River Severn. In late 2009, The Bewdley School was awarded Specialist Art College status.-History:...
- To Be largely Extended, Re-furbished and Modernised (Recently had 4 Million LEA Building)- 2013
- King Charles I SchoolKing Charles I SchoolKing Charles I School is a voluntary controlled mixed school in the town of Kidderminster, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England.-Present Day and OFSTED:...
- To be Rebuilt, 2013
- The Stourport High School & VIth Form CentreThe Stourport High School & VIth Form CentreThe Stourport Academy & VIth Form Centre, formerly known as the Stourport High School and Language College, opened to students in 1956 as an 11-18 school. The starting age was increased to 13 during the 1970s, and was reverted back to 11 in 2007 . The school is located in the town of...
- To be Rebuilt (New Site), 2013
- Wolverley CE Secondary School - To be Rebuilt, 2014
Primary Schools Include:
- BewdleyBewdleyBewdley is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England, along the Severn Valley a few miles to the west of Kidderminster...
Primary School - St.Johns Middle School, KidderminsterKidderminsterKidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...
- St. Anne's CE Primary School, BewdleyBewdleyBewdley is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England, along the Severn Valley a few miles to the west of Kidderminster...
- Stourport Primary School
- Lickhill Primary School, Stourport
- Sutton Park Primary School, KidderminsterKidderminsterKidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...
- St. Catherine's CE Primary School, KidderminsterKidderminsterKidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...
- WolverleyWolverleyWolverley is a village, and with Cookley together, a civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. It is located a few miles to the north west of Kidderminster, near the town of Bewdley, and the villages of Kinver and Cookley...
Sebright Primary School and Nursery, WolverleyWolverleyWolverley is a village, and with Cookley together, a civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. It is located a few miles to the north west of Kidderminster, near the town of Bewdley, and the villages of Kinver and Cookley... - KidderminsterKidderminsterKidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...
Pupil Referral Unit
In 2008, Due to a Tier change in the Wyre Forest causing High Schools to Change in to Secondary, The Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre
The Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre
The Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school in Bewdley, serving north-west Worcestershire, England. Its campus is very close to the River Severn. In late 2009, The Bewdley School was awarded Specialist Art College status.-History:...
was provided with a 4 million pound, state of the art modular Building. The look, sustainability and practicality are some of the reasons that the Modular Building has influenced other new major building projects including BSF, in places such as Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
. The New Projects in Bristol such as Bridge Learning Campus and many new primary schools has been based on the modular building at Bewdley.
The BSF programme has provided funding for the construction of entirely new schools and colleges, as well as rebuilding existing ones and providing ICT funding to non-BSF, new build schools:
New Schools/Colleges/ Academies
- Forest Oak School (Solihull Centre for Inclusive Learning), Solihull. Opened May 2006
- Merstone School(Solihull Centre for Inclusive Learning), Solihull. Opened May 2006
- Bamburgh School (Horsley Hill Community Campus), South Tyneside. Opened October 2006
- Chaucer Business and Enterprise College, Sheffield. Opened October 2006.
- Bristol Brunel Academy, Bristol. Opened September 2007.
- Elmgreen School, Lambeth. Opened in temporary accommodation September 2007.
- Haringey Sixth Form Centre, Haringey. Opened September 2007.
- Birches Head High School, Stoke-on-Trent. Opened November 2007.
- Sandon High School, Stoke-on-Trent. Opened February 2008.
- The Michael Tippett School, Lambeth. Opened in February 2008.
- Ifield School, Kent. Opened March 2008.
- Bristol Metropolitan College, Bristol. Opened April 2008.
- Canning Street Primary (primary school delivered by BSF LEP), Newcastle. Opened May 2008.
- Kelmscott School, Waltham Forest. Opened September 2008.
- Melland (Part of Gorton Education Village), Manchester. Opened September 2008.
- Ceder Mount (Part of Gorton Education Village), Manchester. Opened September 2008.
- Allerton High, Leeds. Opened September 2008.
- Newell Green High School, Manchester. Opened September 2008.
- Pudsey Grangefield, Leeds. Opened September 2008.
- Rodillion, Leeds. Opened September 2008.
- Lanchester, Solihull. Opened September 2008.
- Buttershaw School, Bradford. Opened September 2008.
- Titus Salt School, Bradford. Opened September 2008.
- Tong School, Bradford. Opened September 2008.
- Brislington Enterprise College, Bristol. Opened September 2008.
- Burnley Campus, BurnleyBurnleyBurnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
. Opened September 2008. - Pendle Vale College, Lancashire. Opened September 2008.
- Pendle Community High School, Lancashire. Opened September 2008.
- Shuttleworth College, BurnleyBurnleyBurnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
. Opened September 2008. - Walbottle Campus Technology College, Newcastle. Opened September 2008.
- Walkergate (primary school delivered through BSF LEP), Newcastle. Opened September 2008.
- Stocksfield (primary school delivered through BSF LEP), Newcastle. Opened September 2008.
- Frederick Bremer, Waltham Forest. Opened September 2008.
- St Paul's Catholic High School, Manchester. Opened September 2008.
- Cockburn College of Arts, Leeds. Opened September 2008.
- Penyrn College, Cornwall. Opened September 2008.
- Sinfin Community College, Derby City. Opened September 2008.
- Charlton Special School, Greenwich. Opened September 2008.
- Archbishop Grimshaw Catholic School. Opened October 2008.
- Park Hall School, Solihull. Opened October 2008.
- Park Campus, Lambeth. Opened November 2008.
- Sedgehill, Lewisham. Opened January 2009.
- St Matthews RC High School, Manchester. Opened January 2009.
- Christ the King Catholic and Church of England Centre for Learning, Knowsley. Opened January 2009.
- Silverdale Secondary School, Sheffield. Opened January 2009.
- Newfield Secondary School, Sheffield. Opened January 2009.
- Talbot Special School, Sheffield. Opened January 2009.
- The Bridge Learning Campus, Bristol. Opened January 2009.
- North Ridge SEN (Higher Blackley Education Village), Manchester. Opened February 2009.
- Our Lady's RC Sports College (Higher Blackley Education Village), Manchester. Opened February 2009.
- West Jesmond Primary School (Primary school delivered through BSF LEP), Newcastle. Opened March 2009.
- Elm Court Special School, Lambeth. Opened March 2009.
- Beaumont Leys, Leicester. Opened April 2009.
- Catford, Lewisham. Opened April 2009.
- Durham Johnston School, Durham. Opened April 2009.
- Stockwell Park, Lambeth. Opened April 2009.
- Chessington Community College, Kingston-upon-Thames. Opened April 2009.
- Buglawton Residential, Manchester. Opened May 2009.
- Judgemeadow Community College, Leicester. Opened June 2009.
- Soar Valley College, Leicester. Opened June 2009.
- St George's Church of England Foundation School, Kent. Opened June 2009.
- The Bulwell AcademyThe Bulwell AcademyThe Bulwell Academy is a large secondary school situated in Bulwell, Nottingham, England, an area of social deprivation. It is run on a house system, and based in the brand-new Bulwell Academy complex.-History:...
, BulwellBulwellBulwell is an English market town approximately northwest of Nottingham city centre, on the northern edge of the city. The United Kingdom Census 2001 showed there were almost 30,000 people living in the Bulwell area, accounting for over 10% of the population of the city of Nottingham.-Early...
, NottinghamNottinghamNottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
. Opened August 2009, new building opened August 2010 - Sir John Thursby Community CollegeSir John Thursby Community CollegeSir John Thursby Community College is a mixed 11-16 comprehensive school in Burnley, Lancashire, England. It is named for Sir John Hardy Thursby , a local benefactor.-History:...
, BurnleyBurnleyBurnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
. Opened September 2009. - Huyton Arts and Sports, Centre for Learning. Opened September 2009
- Blessed Trinity RC Community CollegeBlessed Trinity RC CollegeBlessed Trinity RC College is a mixed 11-16 voluntary-aided Roman Catholic faith school in Burnley, Lancashire, England, with specialist status as a Humanities College and Sports College.-History:...
, BurnleyBurnleyBurnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
. Opened September 2010. - Hameldon Community CollegeHameldon Community CollegeHameldon Community College is a mixed 11-16 comprehensive school in Burnley, Lancashire, England, with specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College and Science College.-History:...
, BurnleyBurnleyBurnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
. Opened September 2010. - Kingsway Park High SchoolKingsway Park High SchoolKingsway Park High School is a 11–16 mixed Foundation School that opened in September 2010. The school is located in the Kingsway area of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.-History:...
, RochdaleRochdaleRochdale is a large market town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, north-northwest of Oldham, and north-northeast of the city of Manchester. Rochdale is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan...
. Opened September 2010 - Rochdale Sixth Form CollegeRochdale Sixth Form CollegeRochdale Sixth Form College is a sixth form college opened in September 2010 under the Building Schools for the Future program. The sixth form college campus is situated next to Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, forming a further education quarter in the town...
, RochdaleRochdaleRochdale is a large market town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, north-northwest of Oldham, and north-northeast of the city of Manchester. Rochdale is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan...
. Opened September 2010 - Unity CollegeUnity College (Burnley)Unity College is a mixed 11-16 comprehensive school in Burnley, Lancashire, with specialisms in Arts and English.-History:Unity College has recently been successfully redesignated as a College specialising in English and the Arts...
, BurnleyBurnleyBurnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
. Opened September 2010.
Rebuilt Schools/Colleges/ Academies
- All Saints College, Newcastle|All Saints College, Newcastle. Opened September 2006.
- Parkside School, Bradford. Opened October 2006.
- The Challenge College, Bradford. Opened October 2006.
- Oxclose Community School, Sunderland. Opened June 2007.
- Brockington College, Leicester. Opened November 2007.
- Benfield School, Newcastle. Opened September 2008.
- Temple Moor High SchoolTemple Moor High School Science CollegeTemple Moor High School Science College, or simply Temple Moor High School, is a school in West Yorkshire, England. In recent years, it has achieved its 'Science College' status.-School information:...
, Leeds. Opened September 2008. - Yewlands Technology College, Sheffield. Opened October 2008.
- Fullhurst Community College, Leicester. Opened January 2009.
- Kingsmeadow Community School, Gateshead. Opened September 2009.
- Toquay community college, completed 2010
- Hadden Park High School, Nottingham. Opened April 2009.
- Sirius Academy, Anlaby Park Road South, Hull. Opened September 2011.
- Ganton School, Anlaby Park Road South, Hull. Opened September 2011.
- Archbishop Sentamu Academy, Preston Road, Hull. Opened September 2011.
- Winifred Holtby School, Midmere Avenue, Hull. Opened September 2011.
- Tweendykes Special School, Midmere Avenue, Hull. Opened September 2011.
ICT only Schools/Colleges/Academies
- Wright Robinson, Manchester. Opened September 2007.
- Sacred Heart, Newcastle. Opened September 2007.
- Gosforth East, Newcastle. Opened September 2007.
- Gosforth Central, Newcastle. Opened September 2007.
- Prendergast - Ladywell Fields College, Lewisham. Opened January 2008.
- Forest Hill, Lewisham. Opened January 2008.
- Greenvale, Lewisham. Opened January 2008.
- New Woodlands, Lewisham. Opened January 2008.
- Thomas Bewick, Newcastle. Opened June 2008.
- Lord Lawson of Beamish, South Tyneside and Gateshead. Opened June 2008.
- Boldon, South Tyneside and Gateshead. Opened September 2008.
- Kings Meadow, South Tyneside and Gateshead. Opened September 2008.
- Kenton, Newcastle. Opened November 2008.
- South Leeds High, Leeds. Opened April 2009.
- Ralph Thoresby High, Leeds. Opened April 2009.
- John Smeaton Community College, Leeds. Opened April 2009.
- Cardinal Heenan, Leeds. Opened April 2009.
A number of BSF schools have also been funded as "One School Pathfinders", in Local Authorities (LA) that were in later waves of the programme. These projects have helped to build capacity and competence in those LAs, as well to provide exemplars in sustainability and science (Project Faraday).