New school year, new school, no gum…
Last week’s The Star, from South Yorkshire in the U.K., reported on the slightly delayed opening of a brand new school for students in the village of Doncaster.
The All Saints’ School in Rossington, a secondary school with recognition as a sports college, hosts 850 students in the five-years-in-the-planning £23 million (US$42 million) new building, which features new laboratories and an IT suite to go with last year’s record exam scores and this year’s new approaches, including new school uniforms for the students.
As the article notes, headteacher David Roswell has hopes that students will treat the new school well:
Mr Rowsell also showed his students photos of the old school to get across the message that he wants them to look after their new home.
“Some of the pictures showed chewing gum on furniture and I pointed out we’re not going back to those days. Chewing gum has been banned and we have only one designated dining area.