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14/05/2010

New Learning Centre at St Marylebone School Officially Opens

Pupils, staff and governors gathered at the new St Marylebone School learning centre to celebrate its official opening. (Friday October 9)

The Rt. Hon. Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, was a special guest at the event and unveiled the new university style building at Blandford Street before taking a tour around the new facilities with a group of students.

The new £17million building will not only provide additional accommodation for the existing students but also allows this popular school to expand.

The school's intake will increase from 2010 onwards, with a proposed total student population of 1,025.

These new facilities have been made possible through Westminster Council's £152 million Building Schools for the Future Programme (BSF), delivered in partnership with contractor Bouygues UK, which aims to significantly improve facilities at secondary and special schools in the borough, giving parents and pupils a wider choice of schools with higher standards.

The building includes a new design and technology department, food technology department and assembly hall, restyled art rooms and IT classrooms, new science laboratories and science preparation room.

The building also boasts green credentials with solar panels to provide hot water and harvesting tanks to collect rain water which is then reused.

Westminster Council's cabinet member for children and young people, Cllr Mark Page said: "Our aim is to provide the best possible start in life for every child in Westminster and achieving this major milestone in this exciting programme of regeneration is great news for pupils, parents and staff. These new facilities will make a real difference to pupils at the school."

Headteacher Elizabeth Phillips said: "I am delighted with the new facilities and all the extra space we now have. This building is a wonderful addition to the school and will benefit generations to come."

Lionel Christolomme, Managing Director of Bouygues UK said: "We are really proud to have been involved in the transformation of St Marylebone School and it’s a reflection of the tremendous effort by the delivery team that such fantastic new facilities have been delivered in such a short space of time."

Further refurbishment will be complete at St Marylebone's High Street site in 2010.

For more information call Sam Adler at Westminster City Council's press office on 020 7641 1805.

For more information on Bouygues UK, please contact External Communications Manager Sara Schmid on 020 7401 0035 or sara.schmid@bouygues-uk.ltd.uk