New suite strikes a chord with Great Alne Primary School pupils
IT didn’t take long and involved a total team effort and now Great Alne Primary School has proudly unveiled its new library and piano suite.
One of the first pledges, new headteacher, Matthew Penn, made when he took over the reigns in December was to ensure Great Alne was immersed in music and pupils learned in a safe and calm environment and five months later the school has taken a significant step towards achieving those goals.
The new library and piano suite better uses existing space within the school and is crammed with books from Warwickshire Library Service meanwhile there are eight pianos for pupils to learn to play music on.
“It was a community effort,” Mr Penn, who is a keen pianist, said. “We’ve had a full renovation and replenished our books. The pupils are very excited about the new suite and every pupil is doing the piano from reception upwards.”
The full-on team effort involved furniture donated by NFU Mutual, the involvement of Friends of School and Great Alne Parish Council.
“The support was relentless. It didn’t matter who you asked the response was brilliant. We need to make sure the new suite is used effectively so we will be having community afternoons where parents can come along with their children for a coffee and doughnut and the pupils can play piano or read. We’re trying to create a library café style atmosphere. It feels as though it’s gone so quickly and we still have several irons in the fire and I do want to do things at 100mph but I realise it’s a bit a time and it will get done,” Mr Penn said.
Great Alne Primary School has 46 pupils and more are always welcome.
“Come to Great Alne. I do genuinely believe this is a great school,” Mr Penn added.
