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Yahoo
13-06-2025
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Former school's £6m SEND sixth form development
A council has approved plans to buy back a former school in Grimsby and turn it into a special sixth form. North East Lincolnshire Council sold Nunsthorpe School to Grimsby Institute in 2004 and it now operates as a technical and professional training centre. The authority plans to repurchase the school and invest £6m to transform it into a separate sixth form site for Humberston Park Special School. Councillor Margaret Cracknell said: "There's absolute demand for further premises in order to cope with the numbers of children that need this special education provision." Cracknell added Humberston Park Special School's existing location in St Thomas Close, Humberston, had very little capacity to expand. "We don't have any alternative but to support this expansion so that children are supported in a building that suits them," she said. Humberston Park Special School, which caters for pupils from age four to 19, is currently oversubscribed at approximately 140 students at its existing site. According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, a recent capacity assessment found its maximum intake should be 106 pupils. A council document said the school can no longer offer a nursery and has indicated it will not be accepting new pupils until 2029. By improving its capacity, fewer children with special needs will need to be sent out of the borough for their education, saving the council £31,000 a year. The provisional funding for the refurbishment is made up of £4.5m from the council's general pupil place cash and £1.5m from the future Department for Education higher needs grant. Grimsby Institute is vacating the former Nunsthorpe school due to new facilities it has been developing to host its animal husbandry courses at its main campus. The move is expected to start from September. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Hydrotherapy pool could close as energy bills soar Send is the 'biggest issue' for schools - Ofsted Special needs provision to be expanded North East Lincolnshire Council Humberston Park School Grimsby Institute Local Democracy Reporting Service
BBC News
13-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Humberston Park Special School £6m sixth form development
A council has approved plans to buy back a former school in Grimsby and turn it into a special sixth East Lincolnshire Council sold Nunsthorpe School to Grimsby Institute in 2004 and it now operates as a technical and professional training authority plans to repurchase the school and invest £6m to transform it into a separate sixth form site for Humberston Park Special Margaret Cracknell said: "There's absolute demand for further premises in order to cope with the numbers of children that need this special education provision." Cracknell added Humberston Park Special School's existing location in St Thomas Close, Humberston, had very little capacity to expand. "We don't have any alternative but to support this expansion so that children are supported in a building that suits them," she said. Humberston Park Special School, which caters for pupils from age four to 19, is currently oversubscribed at approximately 140 students at its existing to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, a recent capacity assessment found its maximum intake should be 106 pupils. A council document said the school can no longer offer a nursery and has indicated it will not be accepting new pupils until improving its capacity, fewer children with special needs will need to be sent out of the borough for their education, saving the council £31,000 a provisional funding for the refurbishment is made up of £4.5m from the council's general pupil place cash and £1.5m from the future Department for Education higher needs grant. Grimsby Institute is vacating the former Nunsthorpe school due to new facilities it has been developing to host its animal husbandry courses at its main campus. The move is expected to start from September. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
26-03-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Grimsby pupils design new special needs hub at Healing Academy
Children have helped to design a new specialist learning facility for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Two music rooms at Healing Academy, in Grimsby, are being transformed into classrooms, breakout spaces and a sensory room for pupils with Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). The new facility, called the Hive@Healing, will offer support for children who may have difficulty learning in a mainstream school without specialist is part of a wider programme to develop school places for children with EHCPs in North East Lincolnshire. Healing Academy educates more than 800 children aged between 11 and 16 and is run by Harbour Learning Trust. The trust said it had consulted children on the design, testing materials and the logo for the new from Healing Academy and Cambridge Park Academy, a special school, formed working parties to develop the concept. Stephen Logan, the principal at Healing Academy, described it as an "exciting step". "This is not just a new provision, it's a gateway to brighter futures, and we can't wait to see the incredible opportunities it will bring," he Margaret Cracknell, the portfolio holder for children and education at North East Lincolnshire Council said it was "wonderful" to see children taking part in the project and praised the school for doing "a tremendous job".Hive@Healing is due to open in September. Details of the admission criteria for SEND pupils can be found on the school's to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
