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



