All children at Scarborough school return to face to face learning
It follows the discovery of crumbling concrete at Scalby
Last updated 17th Oct 2023
All children at one North Yorkshire school will return back to class today - after crumbling concrete was found on site.
Many students at Scalby in Scarborough were forced to learn online when RAAC was detected.
But today, all are back in front of a teacher following some repair works.
"Everyone is back and we are delighted"
Michael McCluskey is from the Coast and Vale Learning Trust in charge of the school and says they've had to make some changes: "We've managed to secure some temporary accommodation which is going to act as a changing room for the boys and girls PE because those were completely out of commission, they couldn't be used, so all of these other wings have meant we've been able to open up the school fully."
"Because of the level of the scaffolding and support there are a great number of classrooms that will not be able to be used and may never be able to be used again, to open the school fully we'd need about 17 classrooms built on a temporary structure."
"Unfortunately it wasn't traditional classrooms that were effected it was specialist accommodation such as science labs, design technology, ICT and particularly within design technology the different areas of design technology need to be accommodated in different ways."
"We're going to have to make some other adjustments to the school, our dining room is not useable, it did have RAAC in the roof and as we were doing some further investigations we found that it also had RAAC on the floor, so we're going to have to look at reconfiguring the gym and turning it into a dining hall."
You can read more about what happened at the school here