Woodard Langalanga Secondary School
Date started: Spring 2010
Date completed: Phase 1 opened January 2012. Phase 2 completion planned for January 2013.
Cost of project: £250,000 approx.
Size of school: Triple stream for 540 pupils
One liner: Fundraising is actively under way in order to complete this important local secondary school.
Pictures:
Architect's impression of Woodard Langalanga Secondary School based on the approved plans for the construction.
Water tank cover nearing completion, April 2012.
Phase 2 construction progressing well, April 2012
Phase 2 Foundations, April 2012
Phase 2 foundations progressing well, April 2012
Enthusiastic students in chemistry class, March 2012.
School library, March 2012
Construction continuing on phase 2 of WLSS, March 2012
Construction continuing on phase 2 of WLSS, March 2012
Aerial view showing the front of the school taken on 21.02.2012. The kitchen is in the background with the playing field beyond. The water tank is currently under construction beside the kitchen. Note the two blocks of classrooms are at foundation stage; the superstructures are still to be built. The assembly/dining hall has not yet started. You can see some of the 120 children attending the school waving from the “quad”
A real landmark. The first intake of pupils, standing proudly outside the porch of the newly constructed part of Woodard Langalanga Secondary School on the first day of entry to the school, 30 January 2012.
The first intake of girl students, standing proudly outside the porch of
the newly constructed part of Woodard Langalanga Secondary School on the
first day of entry to the school, 30 January 2012.
The first intake of boy students, standing proudly outside the porch of
the newly constructed part of Woodard Langalanga Secondary School on the
first day of entry to the school, 30 January 2012.
Classroom in the newly constructed part of Woodard Langalanga Secondary School on the
first day of entry to the school, 30 January 2012.
Construction continues on the water tank for Woodard Langalanga Secondary School, 30 January 2012.
Construction work continues even as the first intake of pupils enter Woodard Langalanga Secondary School, 30 January 2012.
WLSS kitchen block and phase 2 classroom foundations, January 2012.
WLSS Science block well on the way to completion, January 2012.
Tree planted in front of WLSS porch, ready for first intake of pupils to their impressive new school, January 2012.
Staff of WLSS meeting to discuss imminent first intake of pupils at WLSS, January 2012.
Work nearing completion on the front porch of WLSS, January 2012.
The impressive entrance porch of Woodard Langalanga Secondary School takes shape, November 2011.
Work continues on the site of Woodard Langalanga Secondary School, November 2011.
A meeting to discuss the Woodard Langalanga Secondary School uniform, November 2011. Mr Mathenge Ndiritu, WLSS project manager, is seated on the right of the picture.
Students modelling the proposed new WLSS uniform with pride.
Great progress being made on the school, now really beginning to take shape, late October 2011.
Roof trusses in place as work continues on schedule, late October 2011.
Completing the toilet block, late October 2011.
Front entrance nearing completion, faced with yellow stone, late September 2011.
Above and below, work continuing throughout September 2011, constructing admin block as well as the front entrance in attractive yellow stone.
Progress being made in September 2011 using yellow stone as well as the grey. This is a harder stone from a different quarry and will give the school a suitably impressive and imposing front entrance.
Concreting the floor slab of the block containing the library, computer
lab, staffroom, entrance and office in September 2011.
Construction of the block containing the library, computer lab, staffroom, entrance and office in September 2011 with the first classroom block in the background.
Construction of the girls toilet block in the foreground, with the laboratory block behind it and in the distance the first block of four classrooms. September 2011.
The foundations of the block containing the library, computer lab, staffroom, entrance and office being built in August 2011 with the first classroom block visible in the background, now completed.
The laboratory block under construction in August 2011.
Good progress being made in June 2011 on the construction of the first classroom block.
Above and below, work gets under way on WLSS, with the laying of foundations in March 2011.
Current Status: In progress
More info:Founded in 1847, Woodard Schools form
the largest group of independent Church of England schools in England and
Wales. The founder, Nathaniel Woodard, was born on 21st March 1811.
The proposal is for a Woodard-wide fundraiser involving all schools of
the Woodard Corporation to raise sufficient money (£250,000) to build a Woodard
Secondary School in Langalanga, in the Rift Valley, Central Province of Kenya
to celebrate the bicentenary of Nathaniel Woodard's birth.
The school will be built by the Kariandusi School
Trust. Fundraising throughout the Woodard schools is now actively underway, and
work has begun on the construction of the school. It is hoped that the first
intake of pupils will be admitted early in 2012.
Click here to read the proposal [PDF]