Shaw Liberal Democrat Councillor Howard Sykes MBE has welcomed news that plans for the construction of a new Royton and Crompton School are about to be taken forward to Cabinet.
Councillor Sykes and his Liberal Democrat colleagues in Shaw and Crompton have wanted to see a new school on the site for many years.
In February 2015, Councillor Sykes specifically asked the then Council Leader Jim McMahon to prioritise a bid for funding for the new school.
In full Council, Councillor Sykes said at that time: “Royton and Crompton School is in a parlous state. It is a school that requires serious investment to meet the educational needs of pupils and staff in the twenty first century.
And I make a public pledge as I have done privately to help in any way I can to get the school Royton and Crompton deserves.
So can the Leader tonight tell me where we are in looking to secure capital investment from Government to make the school ‘fit for purpose’ .”
The Council’s Cabinet will receive a report in September recommending a bid be made for funding a new school as part of the Education Funding Agency’s Priority Schools Building Programme.
Councillor Sykes said: “It is a shame that eighteen months will have had to pass before a report on this matter will be brought to Cabinet, but it does at least represent progress, albeit slow progress. I now hope that a funding bid can be made in the very near future and that we will not have to wait another eighteen months to hear the news that funding will be made available to build the new school that the children of Royton and Crompton so richly deserve”.
I left this school in 1987; it needed rebuilding then.
Could not agree more I left a couple of years before you!
I left a year before you. Can’t believe it has lasted this long
agree.
This school was built about 1967 and needed condemning when I was there in 1980-1985 since then both my children have attended and left and all that has been done in more than 30 years is a bit of cosmetic work. It’s about time the MP’s for Oldham and other constituency’s looked at it and its facilities then took a look at the likes of Waterhead academy and brought our establishment in line with their facilities.
Could not have said it better myself. And a former pupil my self – attended around the same time as you, I take every opportunity I can to raise the issue.
I was librarian there and retired in 2001. The building was showing signs of neglect then but I have happy memories of the staff and pupils. It’s not always the bricks and mortar that make a school.
Could not agree more. In fact I would go further, good staff and strong leadership make a good school, and I do not just mean exam results.
This school is a disgrace. You should be more worried about the failings of the staff (NOT ALL STAFF) but staff dealing with special educational needs they are beyond poor. So much so im currently looking into legal action against the school as the failings need recognising. I appreciate the building is dalapatated, its not changed since i was there over 20 years ago. But giving a nice shiny new building will not change the massive educational failures