One of Mr Boyd’s priorities since starting as Head at Tormead, has been to look at Tormead’s current facilities, with a view to ensuring they remain of the highest quality for all pupils. On Wednesday 8 December, at the AGM of the Tormead Governing Board, the Governors approved a significant capital investment in Tormead’s Sixth Form facilities.

The completion of this project is scheduled for September 2022, with the bulk of the work scheduled for the summer holidays. The current Sixth Form area will be doubled in size to almost 700m2, providing a new common room and café, with dedicated study, collaboration, and social spaces, alongside other exciting facilities. The design will bridge the secondary school/ university divide by offering Tormead Sixth Form a more mature area of study and a qualitatively different experience to that of other divisions of the school.

Some of Tormead’s Year 11 pupils met with two companies at the end of last week, to help shape the proposals, and over the coming months, Tormead will be inviting more Lower Sixth and Year 11 pupils to join focus groups and presentations. Concept drawings are to be shared with the Tormead Community and new joiners of the Sixth Form in September 2022, so that they can be kept informed as their new Sixth Form study space evolves over the coming months.