Yesterday afternoon, I attended the latest meeting of the West End Schools' Project Board, the group overseeing the project to build the new St Joseph's Primary School, Park Place Primary School and Park Place Nursery School.
Construction progress is on schedule with a targeted completion time of mid-September. This will allow for the pupils and staff to move to their new schools on the former Logie Secondary School site after the October holiday.
The Park Place schools will have new names (as they will no longer be sited in Park Place) - these will be Balgay Hill Nursery School and Victoria Park Primary School. The Education Department has updated me as to the process used to choose these new names, as follows:
All pupils, parents and staff were engaged in the process.
A survey was carried out on whether or not to change the new name.
Suggestions were sought for a new name.
All were involved in voting their choice from a short list of three (background information was provided for all on why was would be an appropriate name).
Pupil Council counted the votes.
The whole process was discussed at each Local Implementation Group.
Park Place Nursery School
The names were chosen in full consultation with the parents. The parents came up with five names and these were sent out for them to select their favourite.
The logos/badges were drawn by the children and four were scanned on the one piece of paper for the parents with their children to choose their favourite. Staff had the same choice.