Buildings From 1964-2011
The first buildings on the site were built in the 1960s. Consisting of Stenson (prefabricated concert panels and steel construction) and Derwent (steel and brick construction). These were built when the school was still Derby School Due to this Derwent building contained memorabilia from the old school including war memorials, boards in the hall with lists of former students on and a mosaic in the entrance hall of the schools emblem.
In 1992 there was a fire in a part of the Stenson building resulting in demolition of this part. A new building, Cromford, was constructed on the tennis courts that were close to the entrance of the school, with the area that had been cleared becoming tennis courts. It was opened in 1993 by Margaret Beckett, MP for Derby South. The Markeaton building was constructed in 1999 to house The Millennium Centre, it consisted of terrapin blocks that had been linked together. Other temporary buildings where added to the site as the buildings out grew there capacity, these included the music block and seclusion area. Following a grant in the mid 2000s an astro turf pitch was constructed on the south fields of the site, along with this came extra changing rooms, and a few years later a gym. The gym was built thanks to a grant from Sport England because of Ivy House Special School being built on one of the top fields to the north.
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