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Are you sure Katex ? Neil mentioned somethingg (post 22) about a swimming pool so this would appear to cover that, but I thought that the thing the Kids had designed was a "Classroom", or have I got the wrong end of the stick here ? :o

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A bit vague, when one considers all that a swimming pool must include, isn't it?:D

P.S. I personally have nothing against the idea, (but I'm open to persuasion).
:)

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Trouble is, Less, HBC have not yet got into this century of including the full plans online (as with other towns): I will keep mentioning this. A trip to Scaitcliffe House is necessary ... and how many of us would bother to do this ? Only residents surrounding the grounds I suspect.

Hopefully, it would gain extra income by taking a leaf out of other people's books by hiring it out to private bodies, as other schools do (usually the Independents ... as per QEGS )

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Swimming pools generate income to offset their cost, plus this will not only benefit the Academy but presumably many other schools around.

It will cost a fair amount, but this is quite different from one single classroom.

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Yes, I know that, Ken ... was just picking up on Neil's remark in this thread ... just to be helpful like. :p

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You succeeded in your helpfulness admirably, Kate.

Allow me to furnish you with some karma.

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Yes, it does seem expensive, but how much more use is a self sustaining classroom filled with keen Students, than the boring old same old, we went through?

I was just about old enough to remember the Russians launching 'Sputnik', how jealous I and my classmates were when it was revealed a Grammar School Teacher with his pupils had followed the whole thing, that was one hell of a Teacher, we need more of the same ilk.

These pupils must have one or two Teachers similar to that guy.

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Not sure how a swimming pool generates income.:confused:

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Given the number of unwashed who roam around Accrington I would say it's got no chance :D

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yeh led a sheltered life mate, all the pervs will pay to go in yon.:D

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You've really answered your own point there, it all boils down to the teachers.

We had desks and school equipment from Victorian England (or so it seemed) but we had fantastic teachers and I'm still grateful to every one of them. My primary school education was filled with all sorts of non-curricular activities which broadened my horizons and got us to think in different ways, a freedom which would almost certainly be denied to the teachers we have today.

One lesson in particular stands out in my mind when I was 10 years old. In order to teach us about the different parts of music (bass, melody, rhythm, etc.) our teacher played us Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds and we were spellbound. Part of that lesson also involved drawing scenes from the story that we had seen in our heads.

I just can't imagine that being on any curriculum today but it was lessons such as that which kept my interest in learning going.

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Schools often hire out their swimming pools to various groups, or at least that's the case in various areas of Preston and I can't see the reason for it to be any different in Hyndburn.

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You can now take a university degree on David Beckham, or you could a couple of years ago. The one person who had more effect on my early years was one of my first teachers at St Mary's Ossy, local historian Cliff Astin, those were the days when you respected your teachers, which sadly doesn't seem to happen today

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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.:).

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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.