Some £140 million will be needed to invest in school buildings in a Gwent borough with refurbishments to two Welsh medium primaries the top priority. Plans to upgrade Ysgol Bryn Onnen, in Varteg, Pontypool, and Ysgol Gymraeg Cwmbran were delayed during the most recent round of funding, when £30m was available, due to rising construction […]
Work has begun on a new £22m ‘ultra-sustainable’ special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in North London as demand for places in the borough has soared over the past decade. The site will provide an additional 150 places in Brent to help prevent children having to be sent to schools outside of the borough. Brent […]
BAM has finally agreed a £71m contract price with the Department for Education to cover the first major RAAC concrete school rebuild. St Leonards Catholic School in Durham will be rebuilt to the west of the school site, replacing the existing disused and RAAC-affected buildings once demolished. The 110,000 sq ft three-storey school will include […]
Gloucestershire County Council has invested around £1.3 million in The Eastbrook Centre, a new site for Gloucestershire’s alternative provision school. The Altus School is an alternative provision for children and young people who have struggled in a mainstream setting and have been, or are at risk of being, permanently excluded. There are six centres across […]
Fresh plans have been lodged for a new multi-million pound development for pupils with special educational needs on a demolished former school site. Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants to transform the old Middlehurst School site, in Chell, which closed 10 years ago. The proposal would see a new SEN school building constructed to provide much-needed facilities […]
A special blessing and service was held by school staff and pupils to officially open the new Saint Carlo Acutis building at St Cecilia’s RC High School, Longridge, Preston. Local Priest from Alston Lane Parish Canon H Doyle and the Chair of Governors, Mr M Flynn, performed the official blessing and cutting of the ribbon. […]
Staff and pupils at Kennett Primary School have moved into a new purpose-built building within a housing development being delivered by home construction company Bellway. The new school, off Howe Hill Road in Kennett Garden Village, has eight classrooms, each with their own outside space, a dedicated science, technology, engineering and mathematics space, playing fields […]
The first pupils at Limebrook Primary School are settling in after Morgan Sindall Construction’s Essex business handed the keys to Essex County Council at the start of the school year. The project was granted through the Essex County Council framework as part of the South Maldon Garden Suburb development – a site that boasts planning […]
The government has withdrawn funding for “a number of projects” granted school maintenance cash through its condition improvement fund, after identifying “serious irregularities” in their applications. The Department for Education said it had launched “detailed investigations” into some successful bids and it had taken “immediate action”. Around 4,500 academies in small trusts, sixth form colleges […]
Premier Modular, a leading offsite manufacturer, is celebrating a record-breaking year for providing hire buildings to the education sector, increasing its turnover threefold compared to the previous year. During the 2023/4 period, the company has successfully supported nearly 5,700 students across the country through the provision of 22,500m2 of temporary classroom space. This is the […]