Local schools

[Guest]

Local parents will be interested to note some recent developments concerning both Portobello High School and Towerbank Primary.

Whatever you think of PPP - and I for one fundamentally disagree that this is the way we should be financing schools - few would disagree that PHS, at one time the largest secondary school in Europe, is long past its sell-by date and desperately needs to be re-built. It is very disappointing therefore that, having initially been included, we now discover that it is no longer on the list of 8 schools to be replaced in the next phase of this project.

Meanwhile, at Towerbank there seems to be some plan to sell off the annexe in Bath St to finance the re-furbishment (and extension?) of the main school. Presumably this has repercussions for Comm Ed and Towerbank Pre-School Nursery who also use the annexe.

http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id ... DOCUMENT=1

[Epykat]

I actually work in Portobello High School and most of us are really disappointed that we're not in the running. The school (once you get past the office!) is really in a dreadful state and the conditions that the kids and staff have to work in can sometimes be pretty bad (eg no ceiling tiles due to constant leaks, smelly sinks, rickety old furniture. The management team do their very best but there are limits! How the powers that be can possibly say that Holyrood needs rebuilt and Portobello doesn't is beyond belief.

[Jamesie]

Considering I left in '98 I wonder if you were one of my teachers Epykat!

Re Towerbank annexe - this isn't a new proposal, it was mooted in the early 90's too if I recall correctly, but nothing came of it.

[Epykat]

[Jamesie]

[moffat]

[Jamesie]