Feeling very blessed here on the Hill, that the weather is holding and as a result we are a little ahead of schedule. This week we have one of our alumni to thank for the aerial images. Melville James, who was a pupil at KHS in 1958, was flying over the hill this week and took these great shots.
These images were taken early in the week and as you will see in the final images below, work moves fast. 
It is fantastic that we can keep a log for the future of how the site looked over the years and mark the developments.
We are now half way through the digging window and all is going smoothly. Post the dig the next obvious milestone will be excavating the footings in early November, followed by the getting 'out of the ground' with the steel frame in December.
The shot above shows the site in panorama view
The site looks very different from the top of the embankment, with it being far easier to imagine how the building will slide into the gap.
The smooth area in the foreground of the image on the left , is the base of the old cricket nets.
Whereas, below the yellow markers depict the edge of the excavation, with the red marker (centre on the edge of the earth mound) mark the rear edge of the building.
Whilst the bulk of the visible works are on the top of the Hill, Cook's Paddock, tucked away behind Plymouth, has changed markedly over the last three weeks, as the soil has been layered and spread. The sheep have been relocated to staff village currently, ahead of work beginning in the Severn orchard to provide them with a medium term home. We hope that within a year of finishing the build, the animal can return to graze in the paddock, which should be a good deal flatter than it was before.
Cook's Paddock from beneath Plymouth House
It has been a bizarre end to the week however, having spent over an hour discussing telegraph pole marking with various engineers, as we endeavour to bury cables and remove those that are redundant from around the site. Never would I have believed that it could be quite such a complex subject! On the upside however, the poles visible in this image, which we expected to have to bury as part of the works, are in fact obsolete, so that removes one hurdle from the build process.
Cat Thompson and Nanci Austin