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Photos: Alan Fletcher.
Roundhouse transformed
into vocational campus
THE £48M RESTORATION and development houses the College’s engineering
of Britain’s earliest railway Roundhouse department. The Francis Thompson
has created a spectacular vocational building named after the original
campus for Derby College. This month, architect of the site, contains office
the flagship development opened its accommodation.
doors to 2,500 students, providing 18,000 The major restoration programme,
sqm of learning and teaching space. designed by maber architects with
Built in 1839, the Grade II listed building work by Bowmer & Kirkland
Roundhouse – a 16 sided polygonal Group, has focused on conserving and
building with 40m diameter central space restoring as much of the original
complete with 12m diameter turntable - buildings and features as possible, whilst
forms the social hub of the site and is including a number of new build elements.
open to both students and the general The project features brightly coloured
public. The adjacent Carriage Shop individual learning ‘pods’, glazed on the
houses the library and learning resources front and rear elevations and echoing
centre and a multi-purpose theatre. The railway carriages, which are all self
Stephenson building, named after the contained classrooms with power, data,
famous railway engineer, is home to lighting, heating, cooling and pre-finished
construction, hair and beauty and art walls and ceilings, providing flexible
courses. The Kirtley building – after teaching accommodation and a system of
Matthew Kirtley who pioneered the signage that draws its inspiration from
standardisation of machine components – railway signals.
New resources for internet
safety
A FREE and easy-to-use tool funded by guidance addresses many of the main
the DCSF to help parents and carers concerns about the internet, from
catch up with their children when it phishing and spam to online rogue
comes to the Internet has been launched traders and extremist websites, from
on myguide.gov.uk. chat rooms to music file-sharing,
The resource helps provide the next and from stealth marketing to
step in the Government’s implementation safety filters.
of Dr Tanya Byron’s review of internet There are now four Know IT All resources
safety, which saw a new set of resources, for Parents and Carers, Secondary Schools,
‘Know IT All for primary teachers’, Primary Schools and Trainee Teachers.
launched earlier in the year. The (See also: /www.childnet.com/kia/).
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