£350,000 classroom

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

It's certainly not the norm and I must admit to being in awe of Severn Drive School in Walton-le-Dale when I was 7 and finding out they had their own pool!

They can't be cheap to maintain but the number of surrounding schools that used the facilities must more than make up for that. Of all the physical activities we did at school I enjoyed swimming most and got more out of it than freezing my extremities off in the mud playing rugby in January.

Just a point Ken, when I was around 11 or 12 we went to the Baths once a week, mainly to learn how to swim, a bus would pick us up and drop us back off at school, does this still happen, never really heard much about this for years

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Just a point Ken, when I was around 11 or 12 we went to the Baths once a week, mainly to learn how to swim, a bus would pick us up and drop us back off at school, does this still happen, never really heard much about this for years

I think so, it certainly looks like it does with Norden School but I must confess I don't know for certain. If it doesn't then it's a crying shame because it was one of the most valuable things I was taught.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Benipete

Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking the idea (my grandaughter attends the academy) and it appears to be a very fine school.I just thought it unusual for a school to have It's own facility of this kind..

The Academy has teo specialisms, sport and maths so you would expect the sport facilities to be excellent