Parents, pupils and the wider community will have the chance to comment on plans for a new primary school building next week.
The new Noble’s Primary School will be located on part of the site of the old hospital of the same name in Westmoreland Road, Douglas.
Subject to planning permission and Tynwald approval being obtained, it is hoped to open in September 2016.
The building will accommodate the current Ballacloan Infants’ School and Fairfield Junior School, which will merge as a single through primary school in spring 2014 on the retirement of Ballacloan headteacher Jill Gill.
Members of the public can inspect and comment on the plans for the new school at Fairfield Junior School on Wednesday 17th July, between 3.30pm and 7pm. Present to discuss the plans will be Richard Collister, the Estates Director of the Department of Education and Children, and the architect and project manager as well as Mrs Gill and Fairfield headteacher Ian Walmsley.
Mr Collister said: ‘This is an opportunity for anyone with an interest in the development of the new school to view our proposals. Ballacloan and Fairfield are very much community schools and we want to get the community involved at this early stage.’
Photo - how the new school might look.
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