THE NEW MILLWOOD SCHOOL
November 2012 - Millwood Review - water treatment dosing system installed and commissioned.
1-6-12 Sensory support team move in
OPENING CEREMONY WITH DANNY BOYLE TAKES PLACE ON THURSDAY 31 MAY 2012 AT 10.30
Wednesday 25 April 2012 - new school opens
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Project Manager: John Ashworth, Principal Architect, Bury LA
Project liaison: Ruth Taylor, Bury LA
Quantity Surveyor: Louis Fox, Bury LA
Project Manager - ISG - Paul Higgins
Steering Group Chair: John Cleaver
Web cam no longer operational. CCTV cameras now active across site. Access entry system now active across site. 24 hour security active. 4 week handover/snagging period commences.
NEXT STEERING GROUP MEETING - 23 MARCH 2012
Staff meeting at new school will take place on Wednesday 8 February 2012 3.30-5.00 with invited guests including the governing body and Cllr Yvonne Creswell, Mayor of Bury.
26 March - SMT and PCT staff to move premises and work between the current and new sites. Nursing team will be unaffected and will continue to offer a full service until Friday 30 March.
Ongoing work in building - fit-outs of offices and specialist rooms.
February half-term - adventure playground equipment from current school is to be removed, refurbished and installed at Easter in the new school grounds.
Partial handover took place on Friday 27 January 2012. Ongoing work with landscaping at the back of the school should be completed soon. Many thanks go to the contractor, ISG; Atkins Architects; the many people who have worked on the new school building; and the local authority staff who have managed the project.
Handover date: Monday 23 January 2012
NEXT STEERING GROUP MEETING - FRIDAY 20 JANUARY 2012
TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 2012
TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2011 AT 1.30 to discuss reasons for delay and to review the risk register and countdown programme.
Next ISG meeting on site - Tuesday 22 November at 10.00
Proposed new dates for moving in are Monday 16 April 2012 for staff; Wednesday 25 April 2012 for pupils.
Letter received by the local authority from ISG dated 8 November 2011 stating that the delay will now be 6 weeks with proposed handover on 23 January 2012.
31 October - delay will be at least 4 weeks.
Only one week after assuring everyone that they were definitely on track for handover on 12 December, ISG now say that there will be a further delay.
Site meeting on 18 October - ISG, Millwood and Bury LA now working to Countdown programme for decomissioning current school, moving to new site and comissioning new school. ICT is to be installed by Tribune. Excellent hoist and tracking system is being installed by Carebase. Barr and Wray completing the hydrotherapy pool. Booker are fitting out many rooms with furniture. Ameon completing installation of systems. Package Care are working to our Asset Management Plan and are assisting with the move - 50 crates delivered and all resources, furniture and equipment is being stickered ready to go!
Site visit by Mark Carriline, Acting Executive Director of Children's Services, and Paul Cooke, Schools Organisation
Steering Group meeting - Tuesday 13 September at 10.00 at current Millwood site - agreed that the opening date for pupils would be 18 January 2012. Handover date is Monday 12 December 2011.
18 August 2011 - ISG have applied for an official extension of the completion date. The new completion date is Monday 12 December 2011.
Thursday 16 June - 22.45. Part of Redvales wing was badly damaged by fire caused by a number of young men who broke into the site and who were caught by the fire brigade and arrested by the police. Thanks to the security guards and to ISG for their prompt response. Unfortunately, the young men arrested were not charged.
STEERING GROUP MEETING - Tuesday 14 June at 10.00
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Wednesday 11 May - site visit by Mark Carriline, Acting Executive Director of Children's Services; and Paul Cooke, Schools Organisation - both very impressed by construction and environmental design, as well as the lovely site with mature trees
Monday 11 April - site visit
Wednesday 23 March - colours meeting with Atkins - Whitelow: greens and French garden. Redvales: yellows and Chinese garden. Irwell: blues and Moorish/Islamic garden
Monday 21 March - Asset management register complete. Meetings take place with EDS Catering, and with Safe Spaces. Climbing frame issue decided - one frame only in hall with an option for a second rope frame. Take receipt of samples of block paving for car park and paved areas in gardens and playground. Decision taken to relocate the current wheelchair-accessible roundabout to the new school.
Wednesday 16 March - site visit by Helen - all three wings have steelwork and some windows are installed. Roof is on over the central hub, the garage and plant room. New sub-station completed. Much drier on site!
early March - ICT tender
16 February - site visit by Caroline (deputy) and Jill (AHT)
The hub is fitted with panels and starts taking shape. The hydrotherapy pool is ready for the next phase.
9 February - site visit by Helen
1 February - Steering Group meeting
7 January 2011
Steelworks going up and new sub-station being built. Hydrotherapy pool design and fit-out finalised.
23 December 2010
Concrete has been poured for the first zone and steelworks are in for the same zone. Other concrete raft works to wait until temperature is higher. Foundations are underway for the rebound room, the hydro pool, the main plant room and the three wings.
25 November 2010
Foundations are underway. ICT infrastructure and pupil support being finalised. Admission numbers under discussion. Proposed admission date for new Millwood is January 2012.
12 November 2010
The pile driver has left the site and drainage is now going in as part of the work on the foundations. Helen, Andy Dines (Atkins) and Colin Howarth (LA) visited Radcliffe High last Tuesday. It is important to keep part of the old school as it has such a history and is such a lasting part of the story of education in Radcliffe, not least because quite a few of the Millwood staff attended Radcliffe High. It is planned that one of the coats of arms from above the entrance will be salvaged for incorporation into the new school.
Staff were able to see a fantastic new tracking and hoist system on Friday 12 November in school. It is a Swedish design which is used across Sweden and has been used by a large organisation in the UK for a number of years, and is also installed in a growing number of homes.
Turf Cutting Ceremony - Monday 4 October 2010 at 10.30
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Project Manager: John Ashworth, Principal Architect, Bury LA
Project liaison: Ruth Taylor, Bury LA
Quantity Surveyor: Louis Fox, Bury LA
Project Managers - ISG - Mark Bedford, Chris Smith, Paul Higgins and Martin Bambrick
Steering Group Chair: John Cleaver Early March - ICT tender
Next steering group meeting - Tuesday 16 November 2010 at 10.00
Next ISG project group meeting - Tuesday 23 November 2010 at 10.00
Construction begins - Monday 20 September 2010
Helen Chadwick, headteacher, and Jill Tierney, Assitant head at the site of the new Millwood School in Radcliffe on 5 July 2010.
UPDATE 11-9-10
The countdown has begun! Pupils and staff will count down the days to the start of the new school starting from Monday 14 September.
Staff will be reviewing the classrooms and their new ICT teacher's toolkit. An Innovation Plaza will be set up in school for 'road-testing' new ideas, equipment and resources in ICT.
Helen will be making her first site visit at 11.00 on Monday 20 September.
UPDATE 3-9-10
Construction is due to commence on Monday 20 September on the Radcliffe site.
UPDATE -12-8-10
The landscape designs have been finalised and are superb - please see the 16 July newsletter for details of the design. Meetings have been held with ISG, Atkins and the local authority to discuss hoisting and tracking, the type of hydrotherapy pool, fitting out offices, what we can afford to put in the suite of sensory rooms, confirming the layout of the rebound room, and ensuring that the hall and performing arts theatre are the best we can make them. Further meetings will take place during August and at the beginning of September.
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April 2010 - ‘As a result of a tender process review and to ensure a consistent basis for evaluation, the tender process has been extended, the Council is now aiming to have the tenders returned and evaluated by mid June. It is hoped that by reducing the period set aside for the construction, any delays to the completion of the building can be minimised.’
KEY EVENTS
20 September 2010 - construction starts
22 February - 8 March 2010 - completion of room data sheets by school staff and Atkins
Public Consultation event was held at Radcliffe Civic Centre on 23 November 2009.
All key stakeholders have been consulted including children, parents and carers, governors, staff, nursing team, therapists, local authority. Weekly updates for all parents and carers are in the weekly newsletter.
In June 2008, I wrote to you saying that we had been allocated funding for a NEW SCHOOL. This is great news for the pupils and families in Bury who have children with special educational needs.
Since then, we have
- held a public consultation for Radcliffe community
- Set up a steering group – chair, John Cleaver – see below
- Met regularly as a steering group to keep the project on track – in conjunction with the LA architect and the head of strategic planning
- Worked with Atkins architects to create a design brief according to DCSF Building Bulletin 102
- Collaborated with agencies in the local authority who are key stakeholders, for example, the Primary Care Trust, social care, the SEN team
- Worked closely with our project manager
- Invited parents to a Consultation event for the new school – 30 June 2009
- Consulted all staff who work at Millwood school
- Enabled all education staff and some PCT staff to visit other newly-built special schools throughout the country including Fairfield School, Batley, Castle Hill Special School, Huddersfield, St Luke’s Special School, Scunthorpe, Forest Way Special School, Coalville, Leicestershire, Greenfold School, Bolton, The Orchard School, Sandwell, Brimingham
The proposed site – Radcliffe West site (old Radcliffe High School) of Radcliffe Riverside High School – is the subject of a feasibility study to see if it would be suitable for the new school build. We keep you all informed each week through the newsletter of the new school’s progress and we will continue to do so.
STEERING GROUP
Chair - John Cleaver, Chair of Millwood governing body
Helen Chadwick, Headteacher
Andrew Harrison, governing body, parent
Bob Crosland, governing body, grandparent
Stella Smith, governing body
Paul Weller, Bury FC Community Trust
Joanna Connor, Bury Primary Care Trust
Jill Tierney, teacher rep, Assistant head
Derek Spencer, staff rep, Premises Manager
John Ashworth, architect, LA - project manager
Paul Cooke, head of strategic planning, LA
Ruth Taylor, strategic planning, LA
Maureen Thomson, head of SEN team, LA
Steve Bullen, Quality and Advisory Service, LA
Bernie Garner, Aiming High, LA
Administrative support – Alison Wilkinson, Millwood
PRINCIPLES
- Positive attitude and resolute commitment to achieving the outcome of an excellent new school for the children
- Shared and open process
- Everyone involved in school meets deadlines as agreed
- Close collaboration with the local authority who are steering the process