The Sheffield LEP, a partnership between Sheffield City Council and VCUK, will deliver all waves of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in Sheffield, working with:
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Key supply chain:
Sheffield was chosen as a Pathfinder Authority, to pioneer the BSF programme nationally. The £320 million investment, together with work already completed and in progress, means that every secondary school in the city will have been rebuilt or radically refurbished by 2015. To deliver this ambitious programme, Sheffield needed a consortium of private sector specialists with proven individual experience and the ability to work well together.
The BSF vision aims to create inspirational learning environments through the buildings, equipment and services provided by the investment. This will give schools superb opportunities to improve teaching and learning and help to raise the achievements of every individual.
Civica has developed an ICT learning and teaching environment with Microsoft and Dell designed to transform the delivery of the curriculum. Working within the ethos of BSF, the consortium will provide an integrated approach, from buildings through to ICT, in order to deliver efficiency gains and improved student attainment.
The Sheffield LEP and its partners have already delivered Phase 1a of the BSF programme in Sheffield. This included Silverdale, Yewlands and the co-located Newfield and Talbot Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools. Phase 1b of the programme will include the refurbishment of the Grade II listed High Storrs, two co-located personalised learning centres (PLCs) and ICT and some redevelopment work at Firth Park. The total value of Phase 1 works will be worth more than £150 million and is expected to be followed by Phase 2 and the ICT only works programme of a similar value.
“Working with the Sheffield LEP partners gives us a tremendous opportunity to put into practice the vision we’ve been working towards for a number of years”, said Jonathan Crossley-Holland, Executive Director of Children & Young People’s Services, Sheffield City Council. “This has been a jointly developed vision with heads, their staff and governors, who have played a key role in the selection of the preferred bidder. The outcome will be learning environments which match the expectations of the 21st century.”