The School
When the history of Sowerby’s new primary school Keeble Gateway is written, it will record a complex, some might say a bumpy, start-up. With delays in planning holding up the start of building work the School opened for its first small classes in temporary but very well equipped buildings and those first children were able to watch work on the permanent building.
I asked the Headteacher Nikkie Beniams how it had felt during their “rollercoaster” year.
“We opened in September 2019 in temporary premises serving Nursery and Reception children. In 2020 we moved to our brand new building and grew in size as a new group of children joined us and we had our first Year 1 cohort. Having a school built during National Lockdown was certainly challenging! We were lucky that the craning in of the building happened just before the Spring lockdown and so the project remained on track, but there were moments when the opening of the new school building felt under threat….
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