The £5 million new West Side Primary School in Barvas has been completed.
Builders finished the construction exactly on time and on budget. Pupils will move in after the Easter break.
The new campus is the fourth of six schools to be successfully completed as part of the £125m Western Isles Schools Project by main contractor FMP.
Contractor FES FM will operate the facilities management of the school for the next 30 years.
Cllr Norman A Macdonald, Chair of Sgoiltean Ùra stated: "We are delighted that FMP have continued to successfully deliver the schools project. Although West Side is the smallest of the new schools, significant challenges required to be overcome and to have this school fourth also handed over on time and on budget is a testament to their partnership working and collaborative approach.”
Cllr Angus Campbell, Leader of the Comhairle noted: "The new schools are our single biggest achievement as a Comhairle and the positive reaction by schools and communities to our new facilities reflects, I think, the hard work the Comhairle have put in since the first submission to the Scottish Government in 2001."
Cllr Morag Munro, Chair of Education and Children’s Services at CnES, said: “The
completion of West Side Primary School means that staff and pupils can look forward
to using these excellent new facilities for the first time after the Easter Break.
The entire community will benefit from this state-
The new Nicolson Institute on Lewis, Daliburgh Primary School on South Uist and the balance of the works at Sir E Scott School in Tarbert remain on programme to complete as planned in late July 2012 prior to receiving their first pupils at the start of the new academic term in August 2012.
Picture: Leila Angus
Pictures by Leila Angus
New West Side primary school is finished 7/3/12