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The ITCD Process continues these last ten days and I have been involved in some very interesting and innovative dialogue meetings on ICT, Education, Change Management, Facilities Management and Design and Construction with all the three Bid Teams.

The transformational agenda has been a continued theme within all these discussions and the challenges, opportunities and rewards that this will bring has been at the forefront of these proactive and enjoyable dialogue sessions.

Next week sees a return to the next in a series of 3 hour Design and Construction dialogue meetings in both the sample schools for all the three Bid teams. This will be a further opportunity for the two Principals, School Engagement Teams and pupils of Brumby Engineering College and Melior Community College and key BSF Team Members to engage on the progression of the Design Process with each Bid Team. I feel confident that this will prove to be a successful experience for all participants as collaboratively they travel along the design engagement process.

Looking forward, next week sees the introduction of my third Guest Blogger, Senior BSF Team Member, John Galbraith, BSF Co-ordintor.

Regards

Kevin  

Good morning BSF Bloggers 

On behalf of the BSF Team and myself I would like to wish everyone who logs onto the BSF Blog a very  happy Easter. Who would have predicted snow!  A white Easter is something new, but  at least it kept the chocolate eggs from melting! Hope you all enjoyed the 4 day Easter Weekend.

Regards

Kevin

The ITCD phase is now in full flow. The last twelve days have seen all three Bid Teams in individual dialogue on a number of aspects of this phase. These have included initial dialogue sessions with the following Evaluation Sub-groups:

(i)  LEP and Partnering

(ii)  ICT and Education

and following the initial  School Site Visits and initial Design and Construction Meeting, a second one in the series on this area.

All these individual dialogue sessions, which in the main were two hours in length were very productive and enabled the process to make a positive start. They all took place at our BSF Team Offices at Normanby Gateway, with the exception of the Design and Construction Meetings which were School based.  

The second  Design and Construction Sessions, which were three hours long, enabled each Bid Team to present their initial Sample School Draft Design Solutions for discussion with key Sample School staff and some pupil representatives, supported by a BSF Technical Consultant and myself.

Next week sees the ITCD Phase continue with more Evaluation Sub-Group engagement meetings, as planned within our ITCD Timetable, which I'll go into more detail about in a later Blog this month.

Tomorrow I'm leading on the FM Sub-group which sees the initial discussions on the Facilities Management Specification with all three Bid Teams.

A very busy day ahead for me.

Regards

Kevin

As a long-term Scunthorpe United Season ticket holder part of my Saturday during the football season is spent with my mate Nic, cheering the Iron on at Glanford Park, listening ardently on Radio Humberside on Away Fixtures and following them on their travels on local derbies. This season in particular has seen many of these latter days out which I've enjoyed tremendously.

As a seasoned fan, I feel that this season the team is playing the most attractive football I've seen for years, despite our current league position. Yesterday was a good example and also a significant win at home against Coventry.

Two goals by Patto and Corky were absolute crackers and either wouldn't look out of place on BBC's Goal of the Month. Hopefully this will be the turning point that all the loyal fans have been waiting and we will now have the momentum that has been building over the past few games, the "rub of the green "in the remaining games and dedication, work rate and motivation of the players, the squad and the management and coaching team to enable us to remain in the Championship.

Come on Iron, you can do it!

Regards

Kevin