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Shropshire Star
  • 26/09/2024
Opening of Belvidere School
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00:00I was contacted in about 2019 by the DfE to ask how we were maintaining our very old building
00:10and they got in touch about six months later after finding out how we were looking after
00:15the building to tell me that there was good news in the offing and early in 2020 we then had
00:22a visit from the DfE, they did a feasibility study and we got the exciting news that they were going
00:28to build us a brand new building and rebuild effectively the entire school which is a
00:32wonderful thing for the children. I think the biggest offering of this new building is an
00:36opportunity for change for the better and to really propel the community, the Belvedere community
00:42towards the future. We've got massive new IT capabilities, wide new spaces that the children
00:47are really enjoying so yeah it's just an opportunity to reset and really look forward towards the
00:52future. We're really thrilled that the government chose Belvedere you know and we're so very
00:58grateful for the gift that we have which is our school. Today I think that we want to say thank
01:05you to those people that have done that but I think also we want to look forward and we want
01:12to say to our students that we continue to be committed to them and their futures and we want
01:17them to flourish in their new school so it's a really exciting day for everybody at the trust.
01:23I came on a visit yesterday for example, I found the students really purposefully working,
01:28the accommodation is spacious, they have everything that they needed, very happy.
01:34New school uniform as well for their new environment. It's a lovely way for me to
01:41finish actually because I'm in the process of retiring now and having been associated with
01:45school now for 15 years it's really lovely that I'm finishing now at the time when the school
01:51has just had the massive lift of moving into these fantastic new facilities which they're
01:56going to have you know for decades to come so it's yeah it's made me really happy.

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