A start on site celebration event took place on Wednesday 13 May. Chairman of the Governors, Ian Campbell, together with a group of Charitable Foundation Trustees and other school governors made an early visit to the building site to meet Operations Manager Neville Dale. The contractor, Willmott Dixon, presented the school with an engraved spade and Stuart Robinson took to the controls of an excavator. Later in the morning there was a formal gathering of governors, Charitable Foundation Trustees, St Bart’s staff and students and senior representatives from West Berkshire Council and Willmott Dixon. Speeches were made by Councillor Barbara Alexander, Mark Tant – Willmott Dixon’s MD for the Cobham office and Stuart Robinson.