Inverurie Academy to be rebuilt
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INVERURIE Academy is to be rebuilt.
Alex Salmond MSP (Aberdeenshire East), who is also MP for Gordon, welcomed the news.
As part of the Scottish Government’s new £230 million School for the Future plan, the school will be completely rebuilt on the current playing fields with the existing academy, community centre and swimming pool being demolished.
This land will then be incorporated into the new school grounds, which will include a new and improved swimming pool, Astroturf pitch and a youth café.
Mr Salmond said: "This is great news for Inverurie and great news for local school pupils.
"The current academy has remained relatively unchanged since the 1980s and many of the buildings are nearing the end of their life."
Many children from Insch attend Inverurie Academy.
Local councillor, Bryan Stuart said: "This is a huge step forward for Inverurie and the Garioch. It is great that the new Academy will remain on the same site it has occupied for more than a century.
The 19 schools to be rebuilt or refurbished are:
Aberdeenshire – Inverurie Academy
Angus – Hayshead Primary School, Muirfield Primary School and Ladyloan Primary School Clackmannanshire – Abercromby Primary School East Dunbartonshire – St Agatha’s Primary School East Lothian – Wallyford Primary School Edinburgh – Queensferry Community High School Falkirk – Mariner Support Service Glasgow – Blairdardie Primary School and Carntyne Primary School Highland – Alness Academy Inverclyde – Kilmacolm Primary School Moray – Lossiemouth High School North Lanarkshire – Cumbernauld Academy Renfrewshire – St Fergus Primary School South Ayrshire – Queen Margaret Academy South Lanarkshire – Burnside Primary School Stirling – St Margaret’s Primary School.
At the October 2014 budget, Finance Secretary John Swinney announced that a further £330 million funding was being made available for the fourth phase Scotland’s Schools for the Future Programme. This brought the total investment for the programme between the Scottish Government and local authorities to £1.8 billion.
Under the Schools for the Future Programme, the Scottish Government’s contribution per school is nominally 50 per cent of eligible cost of primary school and 67 per cent of eligible cost of secondary school. The precise amount of the Government’s contribution for each school will be determined by Scottish Futures Trust, the Schools for the Future Programme Managers, following discussions with the local authority concerned.
All schools being announced today are expected to be delivered by March 2020.
When complete, in March 2020, Scotland’s Schools for the Future Programme will have delivered 112 new or refurbished schools across all parts of Scotland. This is more than double the 55 schools envisaged when the programme was first announced in 2009.
