Yesterday, I had the pleasure of taking part in a site visit to the new West End schools building project - on the site of the former Logie Secondary site at Blackness Road/Glenagnes Road - that will provide the new centres for St Joseph's Primary School, Park Place Nursery School and Park Place Primary School - see right.
Progress is good and the schools are scheduled to open on the new site after the October holidays. Apart from the site visit, I had a useful discussion with council officers about road/pupil safety around the area adjacent to the new schools.
And - talking of pupil/road safety - later the same day, as part of the working group on road safety outside schools in Dundee, I took part in a visit to Forthill Primary School in Broughty Ferry, where there are real concerns about vehicle movements close to the school. It was a highly informative site visit and - as one of the first ever pupils of Forthill PS back in the late 1960s and whose younger son attended the school in the late 1980s/early 1990s - it was good to revisit the school that has seen significant extension/improvement in recent years - see below. I am anxious to see this working group result in improvements to pupil safety outside schools across Dundee.
