No class moves at new school

Eric Baxter • Published 31 Mar 2010 14:00

INVERCLYDE Council bosses have quashed fears that pupils at the new Clydeview Academy would have to go elsewhere for some subjects.

The council has reassured parents that all lessons, including science and indoor physical education, will be done within the school, which replaces Greenock Academy and Gourock High in August next year.

The facility is expected to have 258 more pupils than it has been designed for, but the council have said in a statement: "There is no need to transport any pupil outwith the school for specialist or other accommodation."

The council said that, as promised to the parent councils, an independent 'curriculum delivery exercise' for the first years of Clydeview Academy was carried out.

There will also be no restrictions on current subject choice.

A council spokesman said: "The conclusions are that the curriculum can be timetabled within the new school building without detriment to delivery, with no negative impact on learning and teaching and no restrictions on subject choice from what is currently offered at present in both Gourock High and Greenock Academy."

Not all science classes will take place in a laboratory, but officials say that is not unusual and it is sometimes preferred to make use of a traditional classroom or an information technology suite for aspects of the science curriculum such as human biology.

The spokesman said: "There will be enough accommodation to ensure all pupils will have access to the same number of sports sessions as they have at the current schools."

The school's design capacity is 950 but there are expected to be 1,208 pupils when it opens.

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This article appeared in Greenock Telegraph 31 Mar 10

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