SSL
Breaking Ground full-size sports hall, this new building will enable students from both the junior and senior schools to share a place in which they can work, play and learn together.
A ‘breaking ground’ event was held in February to mark the unveiling of the building work on our newest campus (Senior School Leidschenveen, or SSL). It was attended by students, parents, Headteachers, the CEO & Principal and School Governors, together with the school’s architects and building teams.
If you have visited the Leidschenveen campus recently, you will have noticed that the building is really taking shape. The construction work remains on track for us officially to take control of the first phase of SSL buildings on 15 July. When finished, SSL will generate up to 550 additional student places. It is an exciting time for the BSN, and we are looking forward to seeing our students in their new building from September.■
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40 years of SSV “When I came to the English School (as it was then called) in 1972, the Senior Division was just six years old. There were a dozen teachers, only 150 students and we were accommodated in a single house in Scheveningen. It was, frankly, not a very impressive school. The exam results were poor, there was little in the way of extracurricular activities, the building was overcrowded, the laboratories Dickensian, the finances precarious, the inspectors’ reports worrying. And yet, paradoxically, it was an incredibly happy little school and during the 1970s it expanded rapidly and began to improve. It improved so much that 40 years ago, on May 9 1979, a fine new Senior School was opened at Voorschoten. What a success that was, what a thing to have achieved and what potential for the future!
Mike Weston, BSN Archivist and storyteller. To read more of Mike’s reflections on SSV’s beginnings, visit his news post about this historic anniversary: britsc.nl/SSV40yearsnews
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