A final goodbye to

Teachers say farewell to Rosebank building

IT is the end of an era for a Dundee school after workers moved in to start demolition.

Rosebank Primary School on Weavers Lane, affectionately known by generations of pupils as “The Rosie”, closed its doors for the last time in June.

In August, pupils from the school moved into the new £16 million Coldside Campus on Ann Street which is also now home to Our Lady’s Primary and Frances Wright Nursery School.

Rosebank Primary opened its doors to pupils in 1976 on the site of the old Ann Street Primary School.

It had a radical open-plan design, cost half a million pounds to build and was a year and a half in construction, catering for 300 children.

Head teacher Jennifer Heffell said, although the demolition of the building was sad, there was a lot to look forward to in the new school.

Ms Heffell said: “I have only been head teacher at the school for a year but I became very aware that it was very much part of the community.

“We are now going to take every opportunity provided to us by the new campus.

“However, what we have taken with us from the old school to this one is the small school ethos we carried in the former building.

“We aim to retain that and there is an excellent opportunity for us to do that as we are the first new campus in the city to have a community centre as part of the new building.”

Ms Heffell said that the saddest day for staff and pupils, past and present, was the day the former Rosebank building closed its