You can opt out of some cookies by adjusting your browser settings. However, the free area that would have been required at roof level prohibited this. It’s a place people want to be – learners are regularly found using this space studying beyond school hours. Just a rumour again though.. All would operate within an over-arching, whole-school collegiality. They might move Longstone to Tynecastle WH would be better and easier to get to.

They give a useful indicator of the general areas that admit pupils to the school. This is page 1 of 1 (This thread has 10 messages.). Share your story - £100 voucher to be won, Read what Mumsnetters thought of Warburtons Half White Half Wholemeal bread, See what Mumsnet testers thought of Klearvol essential oil inhalation capsules. Very near the termination of the canal on its north side, the site of the new Boroughmuir High School was the home of the Scottish & Newcastle brewery while surrounding uses included the North British Rubber Company and some of the city’s typically dense tenement flats (where a young Sean Connery would grow up). The architecturally impressive building has already been recognised for it stature and design. height: 100%; One can’t help wondering whether a consideration of catchment boundaries by the city could have joined up the high school with its community uses and engagement to lever a better mix of uses, including family housing, to the masterplanned Fountainbridge, bringing a logic to the need for a new-build school in this location. Pupils tend not to go beyond the atrium, unless it is a particularly sunny day, when they will venture to the playground space, which sits significantly below the atrium level to the side of the building. Visit our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to learn more. Welcome to the Boroughmuir High School website.

And hopefully this school can co-exist with the canal without need for construction of a safety fence. In this social space flip top mobile dining tables allow for maximum flexibility, high backed sofas and seating pods were also incorporated to provide many options for collaboration, quiet space, safe space within this popular area. Our ds is 2. Even this external space is presented to the city beyond as part of the whole, contained as it is within the enveloping framework of columns. They're both virtually full. ( Log Out /  No doubt, however, it does genuinely bring an element of excitement and a rather lovely knitting of the physical education use with its neighbouring craft and design department.

Going to a nearby school or nursery class or one which works with the school does not give you a priority place. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.

So any change to try and sort Boroughmuir would be a very big job. With the brewery’s closure in 2004, Fountainbridge became the focus of a masterplan by Allan Murray Architects. That said, Firrhill doesn't have the capacity to absorb Buckstone at present - and neither does Gracemount (which personally would be more concerning as a catchment change.) The slender profile of the curtain walling, combined with a low-profile pressure plate, maximises daylight into the teaching spaces while suppressing the framing grid. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Look at our heat maps. Sorry don't know that that really helps but just wanted to share what I know.. X, As Datec says there's nothing been announced yet re changes and the new Boroughmuir is literally down the street from the old one. We discussed why a view was important, how a space can be the ‘heart’ of the building and how teaching spaces need to feel less compressed – more comfortable to spend time in and engage with learning. )It does make sense to redraw catchments I think and also look at where the Gaelic unit goes, as mentioned above Tynecastle is undercapacity so could either take in more children from an expanded catchment or take on the Gaelic unit freeing up more space at Gillespies.

With five storeys of space, the challenge was to shoehorn in all the requisite functions while retaining circulatory elegance and functionality. bottom: 0; When our lives as children and adults are dominated by screen time already, should we not seek to protect and improve our health and wellbeing by better connection to green spaces and the outside?