In 2020, Angus Council successfully bid for funding to replace Monifieth High School as part of the Scottish Government’s Learning Estate Investment Programme.
The project has now progressed to the construction of the new building.
Angus Council has set out its vision and specific proposals for the transformation of the learning estate over the next decade. The transformation is ambitious, exciting, and extremely innovative, with proposals to create a learning estate that is truly fit for the 21st century and designed to meet the unique needs and requirements of different communities and all learners.
The proposals recognise how we view ‘school’, education, and learning, and the relationship to the places in which they are located is changing. Covid-19 has caused a sudden and dramatic shift in how we teach and learn.
The pandemic has given us new insight into what we need from our learning estate. It has strengthened our belief that learning does not simply happen in school.
New technologies and resulting developments in pedagogy are helping to drive this change, however financial challenges resulting from the pandemic have also highlighted that learning is a lifelong process for all our citizens.
We recognise the contribution that our communities and partners can make to learning and believe that our learning infrastructure needs to respond to this change.