It's not fair :(

When I went to my school it was all old and for the five years I was there I had to put up with the old tatty class rooms and crappy equipment that came with it and I think my grades really suffered for it. Well for the past year I have noticed them knocking down all of the old buildings and totally re developing it... my mum just linked me a video of 'what it will look like when it's finished' and I'll be honest if it turns out like the 3D model they have created it looks like it's going to be really modern and quite an awesome school to go to... all I want to know is WHY DIDN'T THEY SPEND THE MONEY WHEN I WAS THERE :'(

click on the following link to see what I'm talking about (by the way it is not an 'Academy' like the website says it's a bog standard secondary school which anyone in my area can go to if they apply.. )

http://vimeo.com/5593560

same, we are having a brand new school which will be introduced to srudents 2 MONTHS after we leave

it is kinda unfair for the fact we have suffered loads (moving classrooms, distuption & noise)

but then again next years students have to stay at school/education till their 18 and they have to wear blazers after this and possibly clip on ties (just our school)

well i was the second year to go to our new £60million college :D

lmao our school was a building site. now they've been put as a cause for concern and have had to make redundancies hahaha. wow for trust schools. whatever that means. i think it means they don't get money from the government, idk.

What a waste of trees your new school (well would be new school) seems to be!

Loads of my mates who went to the same primary school are always complaining that the year after they left, the playground had loads of play equipment installed and a football cage :P

Same at our school Rob! Although we say it's stupid, there used to be a game we called build us ALL the time, had been played by year 5 and 6 like traditionally for YEARS, then we left and they put loads of climbing stuff so you can't play it :L

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Originally Posted by Special

same, we are having a brand new school which will be introduced to srudents 2 MONTHS after we leave

it is kinda unfair for the fact we have suffered loads (moving classrooms, distuption & noise)

but then again next years students have to stay at school/education till their 18 and they have to wear blazers after this and possibly clip on ties (just our school)

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My school already do blazers and you can only buy clip on ties (thankfully I have a normal tie).

My schools completely opposite. They don't do good things and they do it when I'm here :(

same happened to ours. i was lucky enought to be in both, old and new school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycSM3Swc0c

that room thats divided into two with the bald guy is my business class lol. the place with the imacs is my media room. place with loads of computers is my other buisness class and it class. eamonn jundi is my it teacher lol.

that woman lied, youtubes banned in school :'(

Same happened with me as they moved to a new school the year after I left. I visited it on an open night and personally I wouldn't have wanted to go to the school despite building being new and that, as all the rooms were the exact same. In theory you could have sat in the same seat in every class you went to.

My sister seems to enjoy the new building though as she still teaches there

Ye, your grades must have suffered because the school wasn't pretty.

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Originally Posted by Axel

Ye, your grades must have suffered because the school wasn't pretty.

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i remember looking at the grades people achieved when i first started.. they were really low lol. now its a good amount that are getting at least a*-c.

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Same happened with me as they moved to a new school the year after I left. I visited it on an open night and personally I wouldn't have wanted to go to the school despite building being new and that, as all the rooms were the exact same. In theory you could have sat in the same seat in every class you went to.

My sister seems to enjoy the new building though as she still teaches there

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The buildings for my old 'new' school are totally different from the old ones they ripped down as they 'specialise' in Information Technology they got millions of pounds from the government to make it all modern and high tech

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Ye, your grades must have suffered because the school wasn't pretty.

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No I meant they suffered because the equipment/facilities sucked :P

We are currently getting a new Academy built which will combine both schools in our town into one. Some may think it will cause havoc but they just talk out of their bottoms, as we're, for some reason MEGA RIVALS...

I purposely failed this year in college so I will be able to see my final year in the new Academy which is set to be launched in 2011. It's right by my gym and I walk/cycle past it everyday. The progress they've made is astonishing in the length of time they've started constructing it since September.

So yeah, it means that much to me that my current school/sixth form SUCKS that im purposely wasting a year of my life by failing this year so I can experience the first year in the new Academy - if that makes sense...

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No I meant they suffered because the equipment/facilities sucked :P

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Oh, fair enough then.

My school is also going to be re-built but this time it is going to be in a differant area which is really annoying.

Hmm, that happened at my school, they FINALLY decided to buy aircon for the summer and heaters for the winter after we left. oh and took the ****** pebbles they glued to the walls down ;\

Our school was meant to have a new school built when I was in Year 9, I'm going into Year 13 now and it is only getting built next summer which I'll be gone by.

My school when through quite a lot of changes after I left. For example, the media department got completely new facilities and my Sixth Form Centre was completely revamped. Also we got wireless internet capability, which really pissed me off :@. I do wish that I was there while they made the changes but it's too late to go back, and you can try to retake your qualifications if you find an establishment which will allow it. In the end, every year will feel this way because schools will keep changing as things become outdated and cease to function. Its just a bad coincidence that your school began an upgrade went you left :(. It's true it isn't fair, but its not like the school planned it just so you would get bad grades.

Look, whenever they renovate this will happen to one group of kids.

My school was up against about five others fighting for a £20 million renovation with the "Building Schools for the Future" program. Mine and another got the funding and the others are being closed. We had a day off time-table last year to put forward ideas for the "new school" and we've seen people around measuring up, etc.

As I left school today, I'm not gonna be taught in the finished product but of course I'll go visit in a couple of years time when it's all done. I think building starts there next year and it will be completed in about two years. The majority is being knocked down and rebuilt (all open plan); quite a lot of the school is new anyway.. odd. We've just got a £multi-million sports hall too :P

happening to me now, they are building a proper nice new block for nearly a year and it will be completed before september. Also built a new year 11 canteen and we got to experience for about a month :(

my school is undergoing modernization atm aswell... its a very old school (opened in 1883 or something) and the main school is staying the same because of the history. The buildings around the outside are being knocked down and rebuilt, the squash courts have just been finished actually. recently we spent like 4mill on a new physics and IT block :o