On a scorchingly hot summer’s day, retired deputy headteacher Christopher Townsend returned to Netherthorpe School in Staveley for a very special occasion, as he reports here.
THE occasion was the official opening of new school buildings that, as I well knew from my former role, had been in the planning for ten years. As I travelled there, I reflected on an article that I had written for this magazine over two years ago. I had suggested then that the result of all the planning “would soon be judged by present students, staff, parents, old students and the ‘ghosts of architects past’.” Now, the day of judgement had arrived…