Counting £200,000 cost of York High School fire

A firefighter battling the blaze at York High School

10:17am Tuesday 13th January 2009

THE blaze that ripped through York High School has cost the city’s education authority nearly £1 million, new figures have revealed.

York High School pupils return ‘home’

The Portakabin classrooms at York High School. From left, head teacher David Ellis, Stephen Sampson and Nigel Blair

9:20am Wednesday 5th November 2008

PUPILS at fire-ravaged York High School are back on the site and have been praised for their maturity in dealing with the aftermath of the blaze.

York hotel saves charity auction

12:30pm Monday 27th October 2008

A CHARITY fundraiser jeopardised by the York High School fire is back on, after a city hotel answered pupils’ plea for help.

A lesson in coping

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8:31am Wednesday 15th October 2008

STEPHEN LEWIS returns to school at Westfield Primary to see how York High youngsters are settling in.

Fire ‘started in school kiln’

9:00am Tuesday 14th October 2008

A KILN may have started the fire that devastated a third of the building at York High School.

Lessons resume at various locations for fire-hit pupils

9:50am Monday 13th October 2008

PUPILS at the fire-ravaged York High School were back in class today.

York slated for slow planning process

10:30am Saturday 11th October 2008

York has been criticised for high house prices and slow planning procedures that delay investment in a new report on city growth.

Auction stations

6:06am Saturday 11th October 2008

BIG-HEARTED youngsters displaced by the York High School fire have issued an urgent SOS, as they look to kick-start a massive fundraising drive.

Parents mass for emergency forum

York High School head David Ellis addresses pupils and parents

8:40am Thursday 9th October 2008

ANXIOUS children and parents packed into a special public meeting, to hear the plans for youngsters displaced from York High School.

Classrooms organised for burnt-out school’s pupils

Westfield Primary School pupils watch as a              temporary           classroom for York High School pupils is lifted into place

8:40am Thursday 9th October 2008

PREPARATIONS are under way to accommodate York High School pupils at three school sites in the city.

Action plan for blaze-hit pupils

The York High School press conference at The Guildhall. Pictured, from left, are Brian Crosby, David Ellis and Pete Dwyer.

8:50am Wednesday 8th October 2008

AN action plan has been but in place to get York High School pupils back to school from next week.

Action plan to get pupils back to school

1:05pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

AN action plan has been unveiled today to get York High School pupils back to school.

What caused the York High School fire?

A firefighter surveys the damage caused by the blaze at York High School

10:40am Tuesday 7th October 2008

THIS is the scene of devastation at York High School as fire investigators try to piece together what caused the huge blaze.

MP praises school staff

York High School head teacher David Ellis, centre, talks to York MP Hugh Bayley, left, and City of York Council leader Coun Andrew Waller

9:11am Tuesday 7th October 2008

YORK MP Hugh Bayley praised York High School staff and the local authority for their handling of the fire aftermath.

Students distraught as coursework is destroyed in York school blaze

York High School student Alex Dykes, front, with some of her friends who all lost valuable coursework in the fire at the school

8:29am Monday 6th October 2008

“I WAS so upset when I found out that I just collapsed on the floor and cried.”



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