August 2024
Earlier this month, schoolchildren from Longton Primary School in Preston were excited to take part in our workshops about staying safe on building sites.
The primary school is located less than five minutes from our Longton Grange development and four classes of students, along with their teachers, visited the live site to learn all about the different jobs involved in building houses and the importance of staying safe on site.
The Site Manager and Assistant Site Mangers at Longton Grange gave the students a tour of the housing development, discussing the hazards to look out for on a building site and helping them understand why staying away from live construction is the best way to stay safe.
Roger Lang, Customer Aftercare Technical Inspector for Story Homes, also paid a visit to Longton Primary School to deliver a lesson to the remaining three classes of children, answering any burning questions they had about housebuilding.
Roger said: “As a family-owned, responsible housebuilder, we know the importance of making children aware of site safety. We have a responsibility to the communities in which we build to not only enhance the area but also to minimise any disruption caused by our work – and this includes ensuring our neighbours are kept safe.
“We thoroughly enjoyed working with the students from Reception through to Year 6, and hopefully when they are older, they may consider a role with a housing developer such as Story Homes. We want to thank Longton Grange Primary School for allowing us to run the workshops and we hope to see them again soon.”
As well as watching a demonstration of the types of personal protective equipment (PPE) that workers are required to wear, the children also had the opportunity to dress up in their own PPE, including a hard hat and high-visibility vest, and were each given a reflective high-visibility school bag which included a safety workbook and crayons. Our friendly mascot, Builder Bear, also made a surprise appearance during the visits.
Julie Brown, Head Teacher at Longton Primary School, said: “The children were all so excited to visit the Story Homes site and have Roger come into our school to deliver a lesson. Meeting Builder Bear was a lovely additional surprise for them.
“They were engaged and interested in the sessions and took away valuable lessons about how to stay safe by not playing on building sites. Thank you to the Story Homes staff for taking the time to host our children.”
Longton Grange is a beautiful development of four, five and six-bedroom homes, ideally located in the desirable village of Longton. This exclusive development is surrounded by green open space with excellent commuter links to Preston city centre and the M6 motorway.
The high quality, high specification homes at Longton Grange have been built with flexibility and modern living in mind, with open plan living, bi-fold doors and fully turfed gardens all as standard. The development’s brand new Masterton and Middleton show homes are set to open their doors this autumn – for more information, please click here.
