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£1m centre for Hill House Sixth Form

Work started this week (Monday 9 May) on a million-pound Sixth Form Centre at Hill House School, Auckley.

It will provide pupils with an attractive three-storey centre alongside tennis courts and a wooded area, and is designed to be in keeping with the traditional look of the main building, once the home of RAF Finningley officers.

Facilities will include six seminar spaces, a spacious common room, wi-fi, coffee shop, server and changing rooms, with parking directly outside the building.

The school, with leading exam results in the region, is developing its dedicated Sixth Form Centre at a time when many independent schools are contracting, hit by the recession. It will open in September, almost 100 years to the day when the School was founded in the centre of Doncaster.

Hill House Principal David Holland said: “The Governors and I are absolutely delighted that our vision of a Sixth Form is becoming reality. We are now able to build on our GCSE results, the best in the area, to encourage young people to widen their horizons and give them the finest education at A-level. We want to help and support them in their move onto University and their careers, and our Sixth Form Centre will provide a modern, relaxed and mature setting for their studies.”

The contract for building the Sixth Form Centre has been awarded to R J Cadman Construction of Scunthorpe. The firm was responsible for the refurbishment of the former RAF Finningley Officers’ Quarters when it was purchased by Hill House for the school’s new site in 2007. Managing Director Ross Cadman said: “We are very pleased indeed to be working with Hill House again. The development of a Sixth Form is good news for the whole area, and the Centre will be a splendid base for their studies.”

·        R J Cadman won first place at the prestigious annual Yorkshire and Humberside ‘Built In Quality’ Awards Ceremony in March 2010 for its work on the DeMulder-Lloyd Stand at Castle Park, home of the Doncaster Knights.

·        This was its third success in ‘Built in Quality’: it has also won awards for Low Laithes Village in Barnsley and Parkland at Hesley Village.