THE NEW BUILD

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MC&MA invited all of the local primary school head teachers to a presentation and tour of the fantastic new build, to see the work in progress as it starts to come to life.

The Manchester Creative and Media Academy Press Team spoke to some of the teachers to get their views on the new build. They found that the teachers were impressed by the size of the building, the unique layout, the facilities that will be available and the new learning experience it will encourage.

Mrs Wadsmouth from Crosslee said ” I very much like the idea of the cinema and performance spaces, because we do lots of art, dance, music and plays at our school and I think it would be great to come to the proper place and let our children have a go”

Take a look at how the building is progressing.

A Virtual Tour

The new build is looking great, with all the weather proofing nearly completed the interior work will begin after Christmas.

With everything running smoothly the Academy is on track to open in September 2012. Take a look at our latest photographs of the new build.

Here is how our new Academy building will look in September 2012.

Look at how our new Academy is taking shape, with the steel structure almost finished we look on in amazement eagerly awaiting September 2012 when our state of the art Academy will be completed.

The new Academy building has started and we are all very excited. The new build will be a completely different learning environment for our students and the benefits it will offer are endless. Here are some photos we have taken of the building site so far and we will be keeping you up to date on the progress.

Thursday 24^th March was a monumental day for Manchester Creative and Media Academy as the ‘Silver Spade ceremony’ took place at the new build site in the glorious sunshine.

Russell Stewart, Operations Director from Lend Lease opened the ceremony describing how the new build is a sustainability site. They are recycling all the materials that are being excavated and employing people from the local area.

We then heard from the Lord Mayor, Mark Hackett who has been involved with the new Academy building for the early planning stages, explaining how this fantastic new beginning will benefit the whole community as well as the students fortunate enough to be taught in it.

Manchester City College is the lead sponsor of the Academy and Marie Gilluley told us how exciting it is to support such an inspirational project.

Councillor Shelia Newman spoke about her involvement with the new build and how happy she was that the building work was under way, after a slow and difficult start. She said “this site is going to be an iconic building, that represents the future of education in this area”

From listening to all of the speech and feeling the buzz in the air it was clear that this new building is going to be more than ‘just a school’. It will provide a new and exciting learning environment that will engage the students and provide them with a great education. Just as the Lord Mayor spoke about the community Mr Fishwick, executive principle said “when they invested 38 million pounds in our children and they see things changing, with the kids coming out bright, happy, smiling and successful, then it will have a huge impact on the community.”

The ceremony was concluded with the students joining Mr Fishwick, Lord Mayor, Russell Stewart, Sheila Newman and Marie Gilluley to officially mark the start of work on the new build site turning the soil with the silver spades.

Our press pack Cassie Cross, Lauren Smith, Danielle Turner and Ellie Whiteside interviewed some of the guests at the Silver Spade ceremony and have captured the special event for you all to see. Take a look at their interviewing and camera skills.

Marie Gilluley: Manchetser College