{"id":14093,"date":"2021-08-20T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=14093"},"modified":"2021-08-20T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T09:27:13","slug":"staffordshire-university-academies-trust-invests-150k-in-new-roofs-for-four-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/staffordshire-university-academies-trust-invests-150k-in-new-roofs-for-four-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffordshire University Academies Trust invests \u00a3150k in new roofs for four schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14094\" src=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Roof-at-Staffordshire-University-Academy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Roof-at-Staffordshire-University-Academy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Roof-at-Staffordshire-University-Academy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Roof-at-Staffordshire-University-Academy-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Roof-at-Staffordshire-University-Academy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Roof-at-Staffordshire-University-Academy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Roof-at-Staffordshire-University-Academy.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Staffordshire University Academies Trust will be investing over \u00a3150k, in academic year 2021-2022, to replace the roofs at four of its academies. This will bring the Trust\u2019s total investment in the real estate across its 20 schools to around \u00a31.5 million over the last three years. All 20 schools have had additional investment in some aspect of their property over this time period, for example, car parks, windows, lighting, doors.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">St Edward\u2019s CE Academy in\u00a0Cheddleton, Staffordshire University Academy in Hednesford,\u00a0Tynsel\u00a0Parkes CE Primary Academy in Uttoxeter and Church Eaton Primary School near Stafford, have all had new roofs installed over the summer.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">The entirety of the work is expected to be complete before the new school term and will provide the academies with building regulation compliant and most importantly, watertight roofs, creating a safe, warm and dry learning environment.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">CEO of SUA Trust Keith Hollins said: \u201cWe\u2019ve invested in these academies because their roofs were flagged as high priority issues in our Trust \u2013 wide condition survey and have physically been leaking into classrooms, which has the potential to impact adversely on teaching and learning and staff and pupil well-being.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201cAs part of our Trust, we ensure that\u00a0all of\u00a0our academies are supported not just with educational and business matters but with infrastructure too, enabling teachers and support staff to focus on teaching and learning.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201cThis latest round of investment means that staff and pupils are working in a high-quality environment and that the Academy Principals have one less thing to worry about.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staffordshire University Academies Trust will be investing over \u00a3150k, in academic year 2021-2022, to replace the roofs at four of its academies. This will bring the Trust\u2019s total investment in the real estate across its 20 schools to around \u00a31.5 million over the last three years. All 20 schools have had additional investment in some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,110,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-buildings-maintenance","category-mats","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14095,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions\/14095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}