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Green light given for new sports hall at Leicestershire’s Ratcliffe College
modern and spacious facilities for students throughout the college. The new sports hall has been designed
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by Midlands architecture firm Franklin Ellis Architects and is being built by Spondon-based Pure Construction, both of which worked with Ratcliffe to build the £4.5m preparatory school in 2015. Ratcliffe College, a co-educational, day
and boarding school for students aged 3 to 18, is located in 180 acres of Leicestershire countryside. The college’s preparatory school, which was crowned Building of the Year by the Charnwood Borough Council in 2015, was created to accommodate an increasing number of students aged between 3 and 11 and provide them a unique, modern environment in which to learn and grow. The 1,460 sqm sports hall is the second
sports hall at Ratcliffe College and will enable the college, and particularly the preparatory school, to develop further its growing reputation for sporting excellence.
LANNING has been granted for Ratcliffe College’s new second sports hall, which will provide
The sports hall is expected to be
completed in September 2019, and will be equipped with a function room for hosting match teas, changing facilities and a viewing gallery. Jon Crabb, associate partner at Franklin
Ellis Architects, said: “It’s wonderful to see the final phase of works underway. The team at Ratcliffe College had a fantastic vision for the site and it has been a privilege to help them bring it to life. “The new sports hall will give Ratcliffe
College’s youngest students the opportunity to learn and practice a wide variety of sports at a state-of-the-art facility and we look forward to seeing the finished product in 2019.” Headmaster, Mr Jonathan Reddin,
commented: “We are delighted that we will be able to nurture the sporting gifts and talents of our students further by providing this wonderful state-of-the-art facility. The new Sports Hall is being built to accommodate the requirements of children across the age range so that everyone’s needs can be fully fulfilled. We are so pleased that Pure Construction won the tender and have the opportunity to build the second phase of the
Preparatory School project, having built
the fabulous new Preparatory School which opened in 2014. We look forward to sharing our new facility with the local community as we further develop partnerships with other local schools.” Ratcliffe College’s growing reputation
for sport has been supported and enhanced by several new facilities in recent years, including a second full-size floodlit astroturf which opened in September 2017, a floodlit synthetic athletics track which opened at the same time, new floodlit netball courts, with the construction of a new two-storey fitness suite well underway and scheduled to open in February 2019. These new facilities are shared with a number of local county sports associations as well as sports clubs and schools, supporting community sport as well as Ratcliffe College students. Following the establishment a unique partnership with Leicester City Football Club (through King Power), educating two cohorts of Thai Scholars, the college has recently agreed a partnership with Leicestershire County Cricket Club, which will use the college’s facilities for all their under 12 to under 15 county home cricket fixtures from the summer of 2019, whilst providing expert coaching for the college’s own students.
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