May 2008:
Border Construction are appealing to
kids to stay out of the new school at
the weekends and evenings. Border
Construction are trying their best to
get the new school up and running and
all the workmen are trying really hard
to get the project back on schedule.
Please can parents ensure that they make
it clear to children that it is a
building site and not a playground..
each time there is damage to the site
this sets back the opening date.
April
2008: Delay for Denholm's new school..
The completion of Denholm's new
state-of-the-art primary school has been
delayed by two months due to the bad winter
weather.
Contractor Border Construction has informed
Scottish Borders Council that the earliest
date that the local authority can now take
possession of the new building will be
September 12, and is "resolute" that this
cannot be brought forward.
In a letter informing parents that pupils
will remain at St Margaret's school until
the October break, Glenn Rodger, the
council's director of education and lifelong
learning, said: "There is no opportunity to
bring this date forward without compromising
on the quality of the finished school – and
that we are not prepared to do."
The school, which was destroyed by fire in
April 2006, is on budget at £3.1million.
Source: HawickNews
February 18th: Denholm village Hand Ba'
Local
resident Linda Ainslie has her copy of 'Uppies
& Downies' signed by the Author Hugh Hornby
who attended this years event on the village
green.
A gallery of this years Ba'
can be viewed here..
February: Work continues on the new village
school and progress is good.
January 31st:
Uppies and Downies,
Book release..
Denholm Hand Ba' is featured in Uppies and
Downies, the extraordinary football games of
Britain by Hugh Hornby (a former curator at
the National Football Museum) published by
English Heritage on Shrove Tuesday.
Combining in-depth history, explanations of
the rituals, superb action and archive
photography and detailed maps, Uppies and
Downies is the first book to provide a guide
to Britain's mass football tradition, so
that readers may know where and when to see
the games, and, best of all, how to work out
what on earth is going on!
Get your copy from the Played in Britain
website
www.playedinbritain.co.uk
or any good bookshop (ISBN 978 1 9056246 4
5).
January 2008:
The
latest issue of 'What's Up?', the newspaper
written and published by Denholm's P7
pupils, is now available at the Auld Bakery.
Priced 50p, the paper aims to bring you the
latest news and inside stories about the new
school build, along with news about
goings-on at your local school while
temporarily in exile.
15th December;
Our
minister for the past three years, Revd.
Anthony Jones, preached his last service in
this parish on Sunday 25th November. He has
now left the village to take up the charge
of South East Cowal in Argyll, with his
service of induction to be held in the High
Kirk, Dunoon, on Saturday December 15th. The
Rev Neil Combe, from Hawick, will act as
interim moderator for the now vacant charge
of Ruberslaw Parish Church.
10th September: Mass Foundation Dig..
Teachers,
pupils, parents and local councillors
gathered in the school grounds to celebrate
the beginning of the building of the
new village Primary
School.
Photographs from
the afternoon here..
September 9th:
The 5th Annual Alan Duffus Tribute Motorbike
Run to the late STEVE HISLOP (HIZZY).
'Over 1,000 bikes at one point gathered
to pay Tribute to the late Steve Hislop
(Hizzy) on Sunday 9th September. They
followed the procession, starting a
Dundee, all the way to Denholm Village,
where Steve spent a huge part of his
life. There was some memorabilia on
show and refreshments in the green and
all the local folks made everyone very
welcome. The final part of the route
from Selkirk to Denholm was lined with
spectators not only to view the
cavalcade but to pay tribute to their
local hero. This event is now regarded
as the biggest motorcycle procession in
Scotland and will continue for years to
come.'
Full Gallery of
photographs here..
August 24th: Construction work set to
begin..
We are
pleased to advise you that a formal contract
has been signed for the construction of the
new primary school
with Border Construction Ltd of Earlston.
The construction works
will commence formally on Monday 10
September 2007 & will continue until August
next year. The Council has agreed with the
Contractor that he will be able to access
the site during the week commencing 3
September to allow his site compound to be
established.
The Contractor & the
Council are working jointly to ensure a safe
working environment for all those involved
in the project including neighbours to the
property. We appreciate your cooperation
throughout this period & would ask that
extra care is taken while the new school is
being constructed. Emergency contact
details will be displayed at the entrance to
the construction site, but if you have any
concerns regarding the project please do not
hesitate to contact the Architects’ Section
at the Council.
The project remains on
programme with the new school being open for
business in the Autumn of 2008.
July 17th: Work continues in the Croft Field
of the twentyone 5 bedroom detached villas
and 4 bedroom bungalows. More than half of
the houses have been sold already. More
information about the development here..
July 17th: Traffic lights are again in place
on Denholm Bridge for repair work to the
other side. Work is progressing well with
almost half the work complete.
