THE BRIDGE HOUSE CAMPAIGN FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2015 AND BEYOND BRIDGE HOUSE IS A GLOBALLY RELEVANT AND SUSTAINABLE LEARNING COMMUNITY, REALISING EACH INDIVIDUAL’s BRIDGE HOUSE POTENTIAL TO LEAD, INNOVATE AND SERVE WITH CONFIDENCE IN A CHANGING WORLD. PRE-PRIMARY • PREPARATORY • COLLEGE From 54 children at rented premises in 1995 to 750 pupils on a self-owned The Bridge House Campaign has been created to raise the necessary campus 19 years later, the growth of Bridge House has been nothing short funding to extend and enhance the school facilities, ensuring a world-class of astounding. This success has been largely due to the founding families holistic education for our children and our children’s children. who not only gave financially, but also gave of their time and resources to The priorities that the Campaign supports will result in a changed school INTRO create this school which we are privileged to enjoy today. DUCTION campus with better traffic flow, safer access, added security measures, With a magnificent campus totalling 28 hectares in one of the most beautiful a dramatically expanded music centre, additional boarding facilities, settings in the world, it is now the challenge of the next generation of Bridge state-of-the-art science laboratories, the inclusion of our Playschool pupils on House pioneers to continue the school’s development for the future. site and sports facilities which will be amongst the best any school in the world can provide. TABLE OF CONTENTS: We live in a global village. If we want to BE A LEADER 1. INTRODUCTION AMONG THE BEST 2. DEVELOPMENT PLAN BREAKDOWN IN THE WORLD we need world-class facilities. 3. BENEFITS OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT KEN KINSEY-QUICK 4. HISTORICAL MILESTONES Fundraising Committee Chairman, Trustee and parent 5. GUIDE TO GIVING What WE DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE INTEGRITY LOVE AND COmpaSSION HEALTH AND VItaLITY POSITIVITY (A “CAN Do” attITUDE) LEARNING FOR LIFE Although there are development plans in place for the Existing Campus, the Sport is so much more than just games and match results, it also builds New Campus, the Renaissance Centre and upgrading infrastructure, it will sportsmanship. Increased levels of participation and enjoyment mean: be apparent from the breakdown on the following pages that much focus - adhering to the traditions, ethos and etiquettes of sports codes DEVELOPMENT has been given to sporting facilities on the new land across the road. - inculcating pride in representing Bridge House on the field or on PLAN the side-lines BREAKDOWN The need for additional sporting facilities has been highlighted for a number of years. The new facilities on this section of land will include a full size - monitoring participation to ensure healthy lifestyles for our pupils Astro-turf for hockey; a cricket oval which can also function as an athletics - providing the opportunity to learn the value of teamwork, mutual track, rugby and soccer pitches, squash courts, comfortable stands and respect and fair play terraced areas for spectators and strategically placed change-rooms. - celebrating successes more and learning to regard victory and defeat in the right spirit Bridge House encourages an HOLISTIC EDUcatIONAL PHILOSOPHY, which includes compulsory sports participation and aims to attain high levels of achievement, performance, skills development, sportsmanship, fitness, enjoyment, participation and the promotion of healthy living. DAVE RUNDLE, ex-Springbok cricketer, parent, member of the Bridge House Board and co-author of the Sports Curriculum Plan of Action 2014 – 2020. DS N U F BUILDINGS & INFRASTRUCTURE SCIENCE MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS SPORTS FACILITIES THE APPROXImate BOUNDARY A SECTION OF THE LAND WHICH IS NOT SUItabLE FOR CONSTRUCTION WILL BE RetaINED IN LINES OF THE ITS natURAL State AS A WETLAND, OFFERING AN OUTDOOR ENVIROnmentaL CONSOLIDateD PROPERTY EDUcatIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE PUPILS. RENAISSANCE CENTRE INFRASTRUCTURE The Renaissance Centre boasts a Learning Commons which is a In addition to the three existing boarding houses another boarding space designed to promote and enable progressive and engaged house is planned. Our boarders come from all over South Africa DEVELOPMENT critical thinking in a collaborative learning hub where pupils can and the world and these pupils bring a richness and diversity develop essential learning and professional skills. beneficial to the school as a whole. On-site staff accommodation will be another advantage of having an additional boarding house. PLAN The addition of the Music Centre, designed to adjoin the BREAKDOWN Learning Commons, will allow for a number of small, sound- The upgrading of infrastructure (roads, drainage, water supply and proof practice rooms, bigger rooms for ensemble rehearsal and storm water management) is a less glamorous but essential part of staffroom facilities. The 350-seat auditorium is designed to have the new developments on campus. The new access road will allow two tiers that could be used together for large performances or improved road safety, better access control and better management as two separate venues. Between the performance areas and of the traffic flow to the school and to the new “sports campus”. the rehearsal rooms is a recording studio. This will allow for the teaching of ‘music technology’, which is now part of the senior syllabus, for outsourcing commercial recording and for vocational training for pupils interested in other aspects of music as a career. The reception area will provide a social gathering space for pupils during the day and a hospitality venue for a variety of functions - both school and community-based. SCIENCE WING A further dream is to build on a Science demonstration venue and a preparation room to add to the three existing Science venues in the College. This will allow our pupils to experience more involved Biology / Life Science dissections; to engage in a wider range of chemistry experiments and to allow for work with state-of-the- art digital technology in the physics venue, making Science and Biology teaching at Bridge House ‘cutting edge’ for both Prep and College and for the wider community. DEVELOPMENT PLAN KEY FUTURE STUDENT FUTURE AQUATIC CENTRE THE CAMPUS IN BOARDING HOUSES IT’S EARLY DAYS Multi-SPOrt FIELD FOR RENAISSANCE CENTRE: CRICKET & HOCKEY MUSIC CENTRE, AUDITORIUM, SUB-TERRANIUM FUTURE COVERED SOUND-PROOF MUSIC WATER POLO POOL CLASSROOMS NEW TENNIS COurts Multi-SPOrt FIELD SQUASH COURTS & Natural WETLAND AREA ABLUTIONS FOR OUTDOOR ENVIROnmental FUTURE PRE-Primary & EDUCATION ACTIVITIES JUNIOR Primary ASTRO TURF WITH STAFF HOUSES FLOODLIGHTS FUTURE DINING HALL FUTURE SCIENCE WING THE BRIDGE HOUSE CampaIGN FOCUSES ON HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT THE BRIDGE HOUSE CampaIGN FOCUSES ON HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT BENEFITS OF THE THROUGH FOUR INTER-RELateD ELEMENTS: FUTURE A. SUPERLatIVE ACADEMIC StanDARDS AND TEACHING PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT B. A VIBRANT CULTURAL PROGRAMME PLAN C. A PROGRESSIVE SPORTS AND PHYSICAL EDUcatION CURRICULUM D. AN OUTStanDINg “widER CLASSROOM” PHILOSOPHY BENEFITS FOR PUPILS: BENEFITS FOR PARENTS: -- A specially designed Music Centre with enough space for all - With the Bridge House Playschool moved from Pearl Valley to the interested pupils to participate in music lessons and the latest music main campus parents will have only one drop-off point for all pupils technology. from Playschool to Grade 12. - Better traffic flow, more parking and easier access to key school - Subterranean music practice rooms with superb acoustics and facilities via the new access road. sound-proofing. - Increased security on campus. - A state-of-the-art science centre for more interactive and experiential - Improved spectator facilities. learning. - More time on the sports field owing to additional sports facilities. This BENEFITS FOR THE SCHOOL: has been highlighted as a problem for pupils over the past few years. - Additional revenue streams from the hiring of sports facilities and the - Pupils will have access to more space for field sports (cricket, hockey, Renaissance Centre. athletics, rugby and soccer). - Full elevator access to all sections of the school for special-needs - Squash Courts visitors and guests. - Hockey Astro-turf (hockey is a growing sport in South Africa). - Complete schooling infrastructure to encourage exceptional students to come to Bridge House - Additional tennis courts strategically placed with easy access from the main school building and the boarding facilities. BENEFITS FOR THE COMMUNITY: - An additional boarding house on campus - Access to the Renaissance Centre for performances and rehearsals. - Environmental wetland which will create an outdoor educational - Access to the additional sports facilities for clinics, sporting camps centre. Pupils will be able to learn about indigenous fauna and flora and fixtures. in practice and not only in theory. - Improved facilities ensure that the school continues being a magnet - Easier, controlled access to mountain-biking and running-trails in the for successful, often entrepreneurial families, who bring additional surrounding mountains. skills to the Valley. - A bigger campus and more boarding facilities will contribute to the school’s bursary programme. This programme actively seeks extraordinarily talented young pupils from the wider community who would flourish in the Bridge House environment. 1994 1995 - The number of young English-speaking families in the Franschhoek Despite the difficulties, Bridge House was born not a day later than valley had reached the point where