The Department for Education has announced funding for 12 schools in the Diocese as part of the Priority School Building Programme (2).
The Programme will see one or two buildings at each school refurbished or rebuilt so that they can continue to be used to educate the next generation.
Bishop John Sherrington, Chairman of the Diocesan Education Commission, has welcomed the news: ‘I am very pleased to hear that Catholic schools will benefit from some of this Government funding. It ensures that the good work of Catholic education can continue and build on its current strength and new buildings will safeguard the future of these schools across the diocese.’
The schools which have received the funding are:
St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School, Barnet
Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School, Willesden
St Margaret Clitherow RC Primary School, Neasden
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Bishop’s Stortford
St Mary’s Catholic School, Bishop’s Stortford
The John Henry Newman Catholic School, Stevenage
St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth
Botwell House Catholic Primary School, Hayes
The Douay Martyrs Catholic School, Ickenham
Gunnersbury Catholic School, Hounslow
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School, Kensington and Chelsea
St Richard Reynolds Catholic College, Richmond
The building projects will include refurbishing parts of the schools which are in need of some updating, replacing mobile classrooms with proper structures and refurbishing parts of old parish buildings to expand the school's space.
Martin Rainsford, headteacher of Douay Martyrs, said: 'The Douay Martyrs School is delighted to have been selected to be part of the Priority School Building Programme Phase Two for our Cardinal Hume Campus to replace the temporary accommodation on the site and improve the existing main school building. The Governing Body looks forward to working with the EFA to improve the provision for our school community'.
