Education Minister visits Strule Shared Education Campus in Omagh
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Education Minister, Peter Weir, has visited the Strule Shared Education Campus in Omagh to view progress on this significant project.
Arvalee School and Resource Centre will be the first school on site in September. It is part of a project with a total construction cost of over £130m investment in Northern Ireland’s first shared school campus.
During his visit, the Minister also visited the existing Arvalee School and said:
“The Strule Shared Education Campus is important in many ways, not least because it is such a new concept for Northern Ireland. The Campus will provide modern and state-of-the art facilities and provides pupils with the opportunity to be educated together and build lasting relationships.
“It is also further confirmation of the Executive’s commitment to promote greater shared education and improve the lives of our children and young people.
“The first school to open its doors on site will be Arvalee. I have visited their current premises and heard about the distress caused by the fire at the school in 2012, so am particularly pleased that they will be first to benefit with a wonderful new school and facilities tailored to meet the needs of all its pupils.”
After his visit to the Strule Campus the Minister attended the Early Years the Organisation for Young Children’s (EYO) Annual Conference in Enniskillen where he presented the Early Years and Highscope Accreditation awards.
Notes to editors:
- Education Minister Peter Weir visited Arvalee School and the Strule Shared Education Campus on Thursday, 2 June.
- The Strule Shared Education Campus is expected to be fully operational by 2020.Six schools will be located on the site and are drawn from the controlled and maintained sectors. Arvalee School and Resource Centre is a controlled special school.The Strule Campus will act as a pathfinder to a wider programme of shared education capital projects which are being developed here.
- The schools involved are Arvalee School and Resource Centre, Christian Brothers Grammar School, Loreto Grammar School, Omagh Academy Grammar School, Omagh High School, and Sacred Heart College
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