omagh shared educational campus

“An investment in the future of Omagh’s children” Lisanelly Shared Educational Campus

Welcome to the first public consultation event for the

Lisanelly Shared Educational Campus in Omagh

The objective of this event is to inform and receive feedback regarding the proposed

sharing of the site and some key facilities amongst the post-primary schools

Feedback will help inform the architectural design and master-planning of the site

After reading through the display boards, please take a couple of minutes to fill in the

questionnaire and place it in the feedback box provided

Thank you

Welcome

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The Hillsborough Agreement of February 2010

included the gifting of the Lisanelly site to the

Northern Ireland Executive for an educational campus

Lisanelly – 118 acres

St Lucia – 21 acres

2 “An investment in the future of Omagh’s children”

Lisanelly Shared Educational Campus


Key Priorities

• To provide the highest possible standards of education facilities

• To explore opportunities for collaboration and partnering of

schools whilst ensuring they retain their individual identity and

ethos on a shared site

• To maintain governance autonomy for each school within an

overall shared campus

About the scheme

• The Lisanelly Shared Educational Campus is a vitally important

project for the post-primary education provision in the Omagh area

• The scheme offers the potential for up to six post-primary schools

in Omagh to relocate to the former military barracks owned site

• It presents a unique opportunity to create a state-of-the-art, shared

educational campus in a mature parkland setting

•If outline planning permission for the scheme is secured by

December 2011, subject to receipt of funding from the Department of

Education, it is hoped that the schools could begin to open in 2015.

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Key Educational Benefits

• Will completely modernise post-primary education in the Omagh area

• Enables schools to meet the targets of the new Entitlement Framework which

requires access to a wide range of subject areas by September 2013

• New state-of-the-art facilities for all areas of education

•Opportunities for collaboration between schools whilst retaining their

individual identity and ethos on a shared site

•Creating infrastructure which can cope with changes in curriculum and pupil

intake numbers

•Opportunity to promote inclusion and enhance community relations

•By sharing, schools will be able to access facilities not deliverable on an

individual basis

Key Economic Benefits

• £100million plus investment into local economy creating employment and

opportunities for local businesses

• Provides effective utilisation of a now vacant site for the benefit of Omagh

• Allows the regeneration of the existing school sites in Omagh creating new

economic development opportunities

•Creates an opportunity for centralised catering and other services on site

•Ensures the efficient organisation and use of schools transport on one site

offering to improve traffic management and road safety in the town

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The two extreme options

Design & Master Planning

Assessing models for co-locating schools on one site

How would that effect the site and buildings organisation?

Up to 6 completely

separate schools

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SHARING CONTINUUM

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Where along the shared continuum might the Lisanelly Campus sit?

1 ‘super’ school

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Shared facilities?


Identifying core facilities and potential shared facilities

Core facilities?

Science/Technology + Design

Home Economics

Art + Design

Business Information Systems

Music

Geography + History

Drama

Learning Support

General Teaching

Which facilities do you think could be shared between schools on

the Lisanelly site?

Sports Facilities

Library

Information Technology

Careers Suite

Multi Purpose Hall

Dance/Lecture/Drama

Dining/Catering Facilities

Medical Support Facilities

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It may be appropriate to limit the extent of sharing across early Key Stage (KS) years

in preference for greater levels of shared learning at KS 4 & 5


Opportunities for sharing facilities can increase as children progress

Do you agree?

Shared facilities that

could be enhanced Core facilities that

define the individual school

Ancillary Core Academic Enhanced

Curriculum

Infrastructure





Curriculum

Infrastructure





Curriculum

Infrastructure

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Key Stage 5 YR8 YR9 YR10 YR11 YR12 YR13 YR14

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Sharing can deliver enhanced facilities which exceed the entitlement of individual schools

Dining / Cafe

Lecture Theatre

Medical Support

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Sharing can deliver enhanced facilities which exceed the entitlement of individual schools

Sports Science Dance

Music Business Performing Arts

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Exploring opportunities for the wider community to use shared facilities

The design team will also look at whether

some of the shared facilities on the

campus may be used by the local

community outside of school hours

Would you support these facilities

being made available to the local

community?

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Medical support

‘We value your opinion’

Please fill in our questionnaire and

place it in the feedback box provided

With the help of your feedback the

design and master-planning team will

produce site layout and concept

drawings for the second public

consultation event due to take place in

October 2010

Please also note that this information

will be uploaded to a dedicated

website which is due to be

launched shortly

Thank you for attending this event

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Documents

shared site

educational campus lisanelly

lisanelly site

educational campus welcome

overall shared campus

vacant site

postprimary schools

schools transport