Welcome
Garth Hill College will move into brand new buildings in May 2010, on the present site off Sandy Lane. The current buildings will be demolished, making space for new sports grounds.
Bracknell Forest Borough Council was invited by the Department for Education and Skills (now the Department for Children, Schools and Families) in June 2006 to participate in the Building Schools for the Future 'one school pathfinder' scheme.
This year the Council was awarded £33m for the new school buildings and grounds.
The college will be able to offer an additional 30 places in each year group, with a total roll of 1550 including 200 in the sixth form. The college will be built and equipped to the very latest government guidelines and will be enabled to offer even more opportunities for success for all its pupils and students.
In May 2007 the Project Managers from Faber Maunsell Aecom started working with the Council and the College. Already the programme is on course with architects preparing their outline proposals from a strategic briefing prepared in just two months of intensive work by Council officers and college staff. Technical consultants have been appointed and already site surveys are under way. The scheme now has a Project Champion in Councillor Alan Ward.
Council members, officers, pupils, staff, governors and parents from the college have all been involved in deciding what the new vision for the college should be, and what kind of buildings and grounds they would like. All pupils had a chance to put forward their ideas during their recent citizenship week, and they also sought out views from the local community.
This is a brilliant 'once in a lifetime' opportunity for Bracknell Forest and the Garth Hill community and the challenge has been enthusiastically taken up by everyone involved.