The proposals (these are now out of date and revised)

Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a new capital investment programme introduced by the Government to support the transformation of secondary education. The intention of Building Schools for the Future is to provide innovative and inspirational spaces to support education with a view to the next 30 years and beyond.

The Building Schools for the Future programme provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in the educational chances of the children of Salford, whilst providing state of the art facilities for the wider community.

As part of BSF we are planning some major changes for a number of our high schools.

On 11 September 2007, Salford City Council’s Cabinet approved the start of the statutory process to consult on the following proposals:

1. To close St George’s RC High School by September 2012.
2. To enlarge All Hallows RC High School from 600 to 750 pupil capacity, by constructing a replacement building, to be built on a proposed site in the Pendleton regeneration area by September  2011. The site to include Locality Learning Support provision.
3. To enlarge St Ambrose Barlow RC High School from 750 to 900 pupil capacity, by refurbishing the existing school building and partial re-build, on the existing school site, by September 2012.

Salford City Council also has plans for a major refurbishment of St Patrick’s Roman Catholic High School. However, because there are no plans to change pupil numbers at this school this was not part of the statutory consultation process. Nevertheless, the enlargement of All Hallows and St Ambrose RC High Schools and the refurbishment of St Patrick’s RC High School are dependent on the closure of St George’s RC High School. This is because if St George’s RC High School does not close then we will not be able to expand capacity at the other schools or to invest as much in the remaining three RC high schools.

The consultation closed on 30 November 2007.

STOP PRESS: update on Roman Catholic high school proposals released.

This page was last updated on 9 October 2009