South-west school saves millions converting office building into classrooms

An office building in Bristol in the south-west of England has been converted into a series of classrooms, saving millions for the school concerned.

Bristol Cathedral choir school recently became an academy and needed more space to accommodate an additional 300 pupils, but having a new building built in the school's already cramped site was not an option, reports the Guardian.

Instead, the school chose to spend £1.3 million converting an existing office block and the building now houses classrooms used for maths, foreign language and computing lessons.

Neil Blundell, principal of the school, told the paper: "For this school, it was the right thing to do. I'm delighted with it. I don't think we could have got a better solution."

The classrooms can overheat when completely packed with pupils, but a completely new building would have cost in the region of £25 million.

In other regional news, Newport Community School in Devon has won recognition from the Italian government for its languages and foreign cultures teaching, report the North Devon Gazette.

Posted by Theo Foulds.




Published On 10/12/2009