Development
In recent years, the school has invested heavily in its buildings and in improving facilities for learning and teaching. Projects have included a new Kindergarten, Junior School and Senior School classroom block in 2003, the Hawkins Library in 2005 and the Lawrence House Sports Ground in 2006. However, the school also has more ambitious development plans to ensure that the young people at KEQMS enjoy the very best facilities and opportunities to excel academically and in extra-curricular activities such as sport, music, drama and outdoor pursuits. The Development Plan identifies several major capital projects which will ensure that KEQMS has facilities and resources superior to any other school on the Fylde.
The modernisation of the Science laboratories is a work in progress. The sciences are popular throughout the school, including the sixth form; a good number of our students study science based subjects at university. Having secured a grant from the Wolfson Foundation to part fund refurbishment of two laboratories, we need to continue this programme of improvement so that all the laboratories have the modern specification to enhance students' learning in science, which is so important to the country's future economic success and environmental safety.
The school has a strong reputation in the performing arts. Recent productions include Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors, Pride and Prejudice and A Midsummer Night's Dream. We wish to enhance facilities for this creative area of the curriculum by modernising the gym into a multi-purpose facility for drama, dance and gym. Such a facility would provide outstanding opportunities for students in the performing arts.
Most ambitious of all are the plans to develop the sports facilities at the school. In their heyday, both KES and QMS were powerhouses of school sport. Pupils at King Edward VII and Queen Mary School are regularly selected for county and regional honours and at national level. However, sport is for all and the approach of the school is inclusive, aimed at personal development and confidence for everyone through participation and enjoyment. The school therefore wishes to develop its sports facilities through a major capital project to build an outstanding modern complex consisting of new changing rooms, indoor cricket gallery, fitness suite, function room and two indoor sports areas. Such ambition will require the school to raise significant funds and will only be realised if it is matched by the generosity of former pupils, parents and friends. Our goal is to provide outstanding facilities for future generations.
The modernisation of the Science laboratories is a work in progress. The sciences are popular throughout the school, including the sixth form; a good number of our students study science based subjects at university. Having secured a grant from the Wolfson Foundation to part fund refurbishment of two laboratories, we need to continue this programme of improvement so that all the laboratories have the modern specification to enhance students' learning in science, which is so important to the country's future economic success and environmental safety.
The school has a strong reputation in the performing arts. Recent productions include Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors, Pride and Prejudice and A Midsummer Night's Dream. We wish to enhance facilities for this creative area of the curriculum by modernising the gym into a multi-purpose facility for drama, dance and gym. Such a facility would provide outstanding opportunities for students in the performing arts.
Most ambitious of all are the plans to develop the sports facilities at the school. In their heyday, both KES and QMS were powerhouses of school sport. Pupils at King Edward VII and Queen Mary School are regularly selected for county and regional honours and at national level. However, sport is for all and the approach of the school is inclusive, aimed at personal development and confidence for everyone through participation and enjoyment. The school therefore wishes to develop its sports facilities through a major capital project to build an outstanding modern complex consisting of new changing rooms, indoor cricket gallery, fitness suite, function room and two indoor sports areas. Such ambition will require the school to raise significant funds and will only be realised if it is matched by the generosity of former pupils, parents and friends. Our goal is to provide outstanding facilities for future generations.
