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• WINNING ENGINEERS - GREENFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL

  Fri 21 Jul 2017

  The whole school took part in a fantastic competition by Primary Engineering and were given the task to answer the question ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ where each child had to think of a problem and come up with an invention or idea to solve that problem.

  We then sent off all of our ideas to the Primary Engineer Competition and many of our children were shortlisted from 23,000 entries across the UK to 1500 entries. These were shortlisted by Engineers across the country. The area of Oldham then chose 13 winners in total and 13 Highly Commended entries. It is fantastic to announce that 4 children from our school were winners and 2 were highly commended for their work!

  On Thursday 6^th July all winners and highly commended entries attended an awards ceremony at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham. Both students and staff had a fantastic time celebrating the success, with each highly commended entry receiving a framed certificate and each winner receiving a glass trophy and framed certificate.

  All shortlisted and winning entries were then put on display at Queen Elizabeth Hall in a public exhibition which showcased the fantastic creativity and imagination of our students. This was open to the public on Friday 7^th July and Saturday 8^th July. We are so pleased with all the hard work the children at Greenfield Primary School put into this project and we are looking forward to doing it again next year!

  

• TOP 5 RUNNER-UP IN THE BLACKPOOL ZOO MAMMOTH COMPETITION - MASSIVE WELL DONE!

  Mon 17 Jul 2017

  As part of our school trip to Blackpool Zoo, we entered a 'Mammoth' Competition.  They had to design a piece of art work for the new Elephant House opening at the zoo, which had to include an interesting elephant fact.

   

  After hundreds of entries, Chloe McHugh was a top 5 runner up.  Her work will be displayed in the Elephant House; she has also won a family ticket to visit the zoo.

   

  Well done Chloe!

  

• Public Consultation

  Fri 07 Jul 2017

  1.2 Consultation

  A consultation event took place at Greenfield Primary School on Thurs 14th January 2016.  The consultation process was split into two sessions, one for parents of pupils, staff and school governors, with the second session open to the public for comments on the proposals.  At each session plans, images and other information were available for viewing (see Appendix A), together with the Council and Unity Partnership representatives to answer any questions.

   

  Comment cards were proved for both sessions to record opinion of the proposals, both positive and negative to accurately record opinion to the scheme.

   

  These comments and requests are summarised in Appendix B, together with how the design and specification of the scheme has been amended to address the comments received.

   

  1.3 Summary of Amendments

  Comments from the consultation informed a number of design changes, summarised as follows:

  • - Overall school building height reduced from 9.5 to 8.6m.
  • - Canopies to nursery/reception indicated on drawings and visuals.
  • - Netball/badminton floor markings added to school hall.
  • - 'Nature trail' clearly annotated on landscape drawings of proposed school grounds.
  • - 'Rounders' layout added to proposed school playing field.
  • - PV panels and wind-catches added to school roof.
  • - Secondary access gate added to perimeter path at northern point of school.
  • - Disabled parking bay added.
  • - Existing garage to No 20 Shaw Street added.
  • - Height of tree cluster at eastern corner of Site 1 reviewed.
  • - Internal revisions to Ground Floor of proposed school to accommodate toilet provision to south side of building.
  • - Kitchen fittings and benches indicated in school staffroom.