Objective

The development of a Sports Pavilion promotes and fulfils the aims of Cransley School to provide its pupils with essential and relevant skills to seek excellence individually and in team-play across a range of sporting disciplines.

Goals

Cransley has a history of producing excellent young sportsmen and women in individual sports, several of which have reached national champion status, despite Cransley being an exceptionally small school.  This project will benefit all of our students who use the Pavilion and the grounds for games and will go a long way to enhancing the playing experience for all of our sportsmen and women in our major sports. 

It reflects and acknowledges of the benefits of sport in pupil wellbeing and in complementing academic excellence.  It also recognises the social need to provide boys and particularly girls from 4-16, with the necessary skills to apply themselves - creatively, personally and academically - in order to build the confidence, collaboration and self presentation to continue that drive into the wider world.

Solution

The proposed project consisted of the redevelopment of the existing nursery building as a Sports Pavilion providing home/away or male/female changing rooms, showers and toilets, an outdoor PE storage and an administration office.

The Cransley Foundation sought the generous support of many parents in support of the project. Clear Living Ltd - a leader in structural glazing - and local planner and architect Kel Palmer provided the plans, project management and financial support for the rebuild, together with other local companies.

Michael Eagar (1934-2019)

The Pavilion is dedicated to the memory of Mr Michael Eagar, the beloved headmaster of Cransley School throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and a keen cricketeer and sports enthusiast.

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