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The school is a mixed comprehensive, with approximately 600 students between eleven and sixteen on roll and serves an area to the north-east of Rotherham, semi-rural in character despite the surrounding environment and our students come from a wide variety of social backgrounds.
The original building was opened in 1956, since which time various additions have been made to improve the specialist facilities. These include the Sports Centre and extensions housing Technology rooms for Food, Textiles, Graphics and Electronics and Studio equipped for both Health Related Exercise and Drama.
Accommodation also includes library with fiction, reference and careers sections, five Science laboratories and a range of specialist rooms for English, Mathematics, Geography, History, Modern Languages (French), Art, Music, Religious Education, Information and Communication Technology, Physical Education and the Learning Support Team.
There are twenty acres of playing fields including football and rugby pitches, a cricket square, hockey pitches and athletics track. The use of these facilities – together with the Thrybergh Sports Centre – enables us to use the widest range of sporting opportunities to our students.
Thrybergh's Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
Thrybergh Comprehensive is a four-form entry school, which will increase its pupil intake to five forms under the project with a capacity of 700 pupils.
The existing buildings created management problems for the school. The buildings did not provide a cohesive structure and the hall was used as a major thoroughfare from teaching spaces to the dining areas.
Set on three levels, accessibility was also a problem; the library and ICT facilities for example were currently situated on the third floor. Suiting was not reported as a major problem for the school. However, areas such as English and drama doubled up due to the size of the curriculum departments. The main entrance to the school did not have sufficient architectural impact and the facilities for receiving of visitors were poor, the security of the pupils and staff was compromised by this.
From the earliest stages of the design process the design team has taken a proactive stance to developing a holistic concept for the site. This has entailed creating a development plan, with the intention of maximising the impact in both organisational terms and visual terms of any development on the site.
Raising attainment through better environments is a key tenet of the design guidance of Building Bulletin 95, ‘Schools for the Future’. The design team has followed the principles of this guidance when developing the scheme.
Thrybergh consolidated the school on the existing site through a programme of refurbishment and re-modelling. New build main entrance, classrooms and hall was to be provided. The existing sports hall was to be refurbished. The Youth Service Accommodation within the Spectrum Centre was re-furbished also.
Construction and refurbishment work started in June 2004 and was completed in April 2006. view plans ...
The Thrybergh Excellence in Cities Action Zone (EiCAZ) [ Visit...]
The Thrybergh Excellence in Cities Action Zone (EiCAZ) which consists of eight schools; Thrybergh Comprehensive and its feeder schools and the surrounding communities; Thrybergh, Dalton and East Herringthorpe was formed in April 2000.
The EiCAZ is one of the six strands that make up the Excellence in Cities programme. The project is centred on sharing learning between schools and extending learning opportunities for all pupils.
The EiCAZ enable local partnerships, which include the private sector, to tackle areas of need and develop strategies to raise educational standards, by focusing on a secondary school and their associated primary schools.
Learning in Rotherham has greatly benefited from activities under the 'Excellence in Cities' initiative and no more than the Thrybergh Action Zone moving foreword through ICT.
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