School Facilities

Your school has managed to raise a huge donation for the improvement of facilities and/or learning and teaching in the school. Please write an essay of at least 250 words on how best to use the money. In the first paragraph, you should set out three proposed uses of the money. In the second paragraph, you should justify such uses.

I am pleased to note that the school has recently secured a huge donation from a well-known philanthropist who has a keen interest in the well-being of the school. I also understand the school is inclined to make good use of the donation to improve the school facilities and learning and teaching in the school. This is, in my view, a worthwhile cause and I would like to propose three uses of the funds: to upgrade the gym facilities, to increase the library collection, and to launch an English-speaking campaign.

 

The existing gym facilities were first installed about ten years ago. Because of the students’ heavy usage of the facilities, the facilities are now in a dilapidated state. Some of them are often broken, depriving the students of opportunities to keep fit. The school teams are also adversely affected as the downtime of the facilities disrupts their training schedules. It is therefore essential to upgrade the facilities as soon as possible so as to encourage the students to exercise and provide the school teams with maximum support for their training schedules. As to the library collection, there is room for increasing the availability of more books so as to stimulate the students’ interest in reading. At present, there are few audio-visual resources in the library. They should be increased to appeal to the students as they might find them more attractive than books. The proposed English-speaking campaign is aimed to encourage the students to improve their spoken English and have more confidence in speaking English, the importance of which cannot be emphasised more.