Beaumont Leys School hosts national Building Schools for the Future Open Day
21 January 2010
An award-winning school in Leicester, today (Thursday 21 January 2010) held an Open Day to show off its fantastic new building and learning environment to visitors from across the country.
Beaumont Leys School, which opened last April and won ‘BSF School of the Year’ and the prestigious Grand Prix award at Partnerships for Schools’ 2009 Excellence in BSF Awards, played host to over 100 delegates involved in various Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects throughout England, who came to hear how the new school was benefitting pupils and the local community.
Delegates came from places all over England - from Bolton in the north to Lambeth in London in the south – and took back valuable tips on their school building projects.
A number of the school’s pupils played a huge part in the day by helping out headteacher, Liz Logie, with tours of the building and its stunning facilities.
Tim Byles, Chief Executive of Partnerships for Schools, the organisation responsible for delivering the national Building Schools for the Future programme, said: "Beaumont Leys school is a shining example of how BSF can enhance the life chances of pupils and the difference it has already made was evident on the faces of the children I met today. With three other BSF schools also open, Leicester is well on its way to providing opportunities for all of the city’s young people and so the BSF Open Day was a great chance to showcase Leicester’s achievements. January has seen 146 schools and 125,000 pupils benefiting from BSF investment across the country and I look forward to following the progress of other projects in the coming months."
Councillor Vi Dempster, Leicester City Council's cabinet member for children and schools, said: "We were delighted that Beaumont Leys has again been chosen to demonstrate the benefits of BSF. It was very pleasing to see so many interested people wanting to hear about Leicester City and the improvements that we are already making to the lives of our young people through this investment in our schools."
The school’s ICT provider, Northgate Information Solutions, announced today that they had recently recruited a former Beaumont Leys pupil who will be working at all of Leicester’s BSF schools, starting in February.
Notes to editors:
- The BSF Open Day featured presentations from:
o Tim Byles, Chief Executive - Partnerships for Schools
o Councillor Vi Dempster, cabinet member for children and schools - Leicester City Council
o Rachel Dickinson, Strategic Director Children’s Services - Leicester City Council
o John Garratt, Director of BSF - Leicester City Council
o Stephen Trebble, General Manager - Leicester Miller Education Company
o Jonathan Cain, Regional Director – Aedas architects
o James Stevenson, Regional Director – Northgate Information Solutions
o Liz Logie, Headteacher – Beaumont Leys School
- Partnerships for Schools (PfS) is the government’s delivery agent for the full suite of capital investment programmes into schools, helping ensure that taxpayers get the best value from every education pound spent.
- PfS is responsible for the delivery of around £8bn investment into education until 2011– through Building Schools for the Future (BSF); the Academies programme; the Primary Capital Programme; and the Devolved and Targeted Capital Programmes.
- BSF is the largest capital investment programme for 50 years that will provide world-class teaching and learning environments for all pupils, teachers and communities in England. Over the lifetime of the programme, BSF will help improve the life chances of 3.3m children every year.
- Around a third of all secondary schools in England are now involved in the BSF programme in 96 local authorities.
