The school will have capacity for 300 5 – 11 year-olds, and there will also be a nursery on-site with space for 39 children. The building is expected to be completed by 2021.

 

The Castleward Urban Village has 5 phases of expected development. Phase 1 is already completed, and phase 2 should be complete by the end of the year. 

 

Derby City Council leader Cllr Chris Poulter said: "This is fantastic news for the development and will help to encourage young families move into new developments within the city centre.

 

"The provision of the school was the key to enable the completion of the wider Castleward scheme.

 

"The regeneration at Castleward showcases our ongoing transformation and commitment to our City Centre Masterplan to build 1,900 new housing units by 2030.

 

"I’d like to thank Homes England for their investment which has made a significant contribution to the funding of this new school.

 

"The secretary of state, Robert Jenrick MP, recently toured the development and endorsed the scheme as a really good example of the type of inner city place making and regeneration necessary to create new urban communities."

 

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Our Integration module enables schools and other organizations in the educational sector to integrate our Time and Attendance Clocking and Access Control equipment with the School Information Management System (SIMS).

 

The software plugin allows student and staff attendance records to be imported into our centralised system, along with the details of their assigned proximity smart cards. Staff and students can then gain, or be denied, access to areas controlled by the access controllers, based upon their access permissions.

 

Details of past and current students can now be exported from SIMS into our system. An automatic facility imports students’ forenames, surnames, genders and start dates.  Students are identified by their UPN and grouped by their year and registration group. Staff details are also imported into our system. 

 

Once attendance information is gathered from SIMS, configuration rules dictate how these attendance marks are treated. For example, attendance marks could replace existing clockings on our system, or be added as new entries.  Different rules can be applied to every day of the week.

 

If a school already have a card-based access control or time and attendance system, our card link facility ensures the records can be carried over and the card integrated. 

 

One of the many advantages of our integrated system is that the list of current clock-ins can be configured to print automatically as a fire roll call/register when the fire alarm sounds. This is quick and effective, and much more reliable than other manual methods such as headcounts or reading from a class register.