New Portobello High School- Where and how?

by **Mrs Mangle** » 12 Mar 2006, 18:49

Holyrood may be designed for a certain amount of children, but it is very fast filling up. It has about 5/6 feeder schools around the city, not counting the kids for non-denomination schools.

Castlebrae has close to 350 kids a present.

So although it will never take over the number roll of Porty, it is indeed very close to it's 1000.

The new Holyrood High plans were on show recently and every parent of a child in this school were invited along at the begining of this month to look and offer opinion.

It is said it will be open within the next 18 month - 2 years, please remember people this is being built by Scottish/British workmen !
:lol:

Just had a strange look from my builder husband. :lol:

by **Keir Hardie** » 12 Mar 2006, 18:59

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by **Mate of Marya** » 12 Mar 2006, 22:17

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by **seanie** » 12 Mar 2006, 23:45

[quote="Keir Hardie"]
Finance :Addressing the biggest of these first â€“ funding â€“ the attitudes and decisions of our politicians are very important to this â€“ they want to self finance, but we SHOULD be questioning this. I still havenâ€™t seen a convincing detailed case as to why they cannot raise the funds either from the Scottish Executive or prudential borrowing. So we canâ€™t even start to â€œconsider the proposal in principleâ€

by **seanie** » 13 Mar 2006, 00:26

Iâ€™ll try to explain prudential borrowing again.

The crucial part is whatâ€™s considered prudential. And thatâ€™s determined by Central Government. They provide most of the funding to LAâ€™s so they ultimately determine the framework LAâ€™s can operate within.

The fundammental point is that prudential borrowing is not meant to increase Council spending. But taking on a loan, and the consequent repayments, obviously represents an additional financial burden. So how are these two things accomodated?

Borrowing is considered prudential only if the additional costs of repaying a loan are offset by savings made possible by borrowing the money. In construction terms it may mean long-term savings in maintainence, operating costs, heating bills due to better insulation values etc.

So the scope for prudential borrowing is not tied to project costs. Itâ€™s tied to a long-term assesment of potential savings with the project. And in normal circumstances that represents a fraction of project costs.

Prudential borrowing may help fund new schools, but it will not provide anywhere near sufficient funds itself.

by **Mate of Marya** » 13 Mar 2006, 06:42

by **Keir Hardie** » 13 Mar 2006, 10:06

by **Maria** » 13 Mar 2006, 10:09

by **Dave Connelly** » 13 Mar 2006, 10:19

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 13 Mar 2006, 13:33

by **Dadaist** » 13 Mar 2006, 13:41

by **Stephen McIntyre** » 13 Mar 2006, 13:47

Meeting at Portobello High School Thursday 16th March at 7:00pm.

Thought I would post an extract from the document that was issued by the Schoolboard to us parents. Italics:

What do you thinK?

You all have children at the school and some of you may have younger ones who will be coming in the next few years. What do you think? You can tell us by:

Coming to some discussion groups in the School etc etc

The discussions are to hear your views as Porty parents. We will not have any more information to give you.

So, this is quite clearly a parents only meeting with no new information about the schools. It is therefore totally in order that Gary "leaflet" Gowans attends this meeting as a Porty parent and makes his views known. It would also be in order for him to form a posse of similar minded Porty parents. As long as he does so on an honest basis and does not create an expectation that something quite different will occur.

I'm looking forward to Friday when some of my fellow POLers will no doubt be; shocked, surprised, horrified or find it bizzare that no further information was given at the meeting.

Edit: bit about GG the leaflet.

by **Dadaist** » 13 Mar 2006, 13:56

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New Portobello High School- Where and how?

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