Hollingsworth Designs Ltd Lynne Hollingsworth

Background to the Transform Schools Project

It is widely held that there is a link between the quality of the environment in which our nations children are required to study, and their ultimate academic achievement.

As the quality of the environment is enhanced, then so too is educational attainment, behavioural characteristics and indeed teacher and pupil morale.

To this end, dedicated companies have been set up by two of the country’s leading companies involved in PFI in Education, under the generic banner of Transform Schools, to meet the needs of improving the existing fabric, maintaining buildings through time and delivering core services to allow the academic staff the freedom to concentrate on the delivery of education.

Balfour Beatty Capital Projects Ltd, the division of Balfour Beatty plc that procures and manages PFI opportunities throughout all sectors of the PFI arena, together with Innisfree Ltd, the leading infrastructure investment group in the UK investing in PFI and PPP projects, have jointly set up Transform Schools, in order to deliver large, complex education PFI projects within the UK.

About the School – Wath Comprehensive A Language College

Wath Comprehensive, a Language College is the first secondary school to be completed under the Rotherham School PFI Project and was handed over in April 2005.

The new school has been built adjacent to the old Wath Comprehensive and is situated at the junction of the main Rotherham Road (Sandygate) and Festival Road, on the periphery of Wath town centre. Wath itself is close to the metropolitan boundary with Barnsley.

The new build school is to the southern end of the existing site. Due to its large size the main hall has been retained, refurbished and incorporated into the new build. The two existing sports halls have also been retained and refurbished with new changing facilities common to both.

The Young Persons Centre is incorporated into the new build and the existing building demolished.