Livingstone Road Junior School in Poole, have celebrated reopening their Information Technology suite for pupils to use again following a major water leak last year. Due to extensive water damage the school had to close the IT Suite building, leaving the pupils without access to unique and important learning resource’s along with the Library, Art & Design Technology room.
The Junior school has a firm focus on creating a solid foundation for learning, inspiring their students’, and making learning enjoyable. As part of this, in July and August 2022 they had invested in a forest themed specialist IT suite for pupils to learn their IT skills.
Bennington Green, working in partnership with Hamwic Education Trust, A&D Property Services and Accolade, worked to a tight 12-month turnaround (including the insurance claim) to reopen the IT suite without impacting or closing the school.
The reinstatement works to the building have included stripping out all the water damaged components throughout the building and reinstating it back to its original condition. The IT suite has been returned to its beautify forest theme, offering a welcoming and motivating primary school environment for the all the pupils who attend both Livingstone Road Infant and Livingstone Road Junior schools.
Robert Winkley, Director at Bennington Green has commented: “We are delighted to have been able to help reinstate this important and inspiring resource for the pupils so quickly, and to such a high standard.”
Hamwic Education Trust on behalf of the school want to thank Bennington Green, school staff and all the amazing contractors who have enabled the school to restore the block and ensure the IT Suite has reopened.
“The whole block was completely flooded and in partnership with our RPA insurers and all the contractors, disruption was kept to a minimum. The process has been very smooth and all credit to everyone involved.”