Building Schools for the Future and the Primary Capital Programme are government funded initiatives that aim to transform every secondary school in the country and to improve over half of primary schools. In Wigan we have linked these two initiatives in our Wigan Schools for the Future programme to make the most of the funding available.
Building Schools for the Future will see over £250m invested in transforming secondary schools across the borough.
The Primary Capital Programme will give us about £3m a year over fifteen years to improve around half our primary schools.
The objective of our schools for the future programme is to raise standards, transform learning and place schools at the heart of their communities by:
- providing modern and better designed premises that are able to provide learners with a wide range of academic and work-focused courses, not just GCSEs at secondary schools. This will include ensuring that the latest technology is available for all learners to facilitate personalised learning and 'anytime any place' learning;
- expanding the use of school premises to provide better facilities for all the community - not just young people – by locating other community facilities in the same premises;
- providing extra facilities on site for education for the wider community.
