WESTBURY Infant School will be doing away with its mobile classrooms this year and having a permanent extension built to bring all eight classes under the same roof.
The school on Eden Vale Road was granted planning permission last month to go ahead with the building project. Work on the three classrooms is expected to last from May to December this year.
During the building the three mobile classrooms, which are all over 20 years old and considered too old to maintain, will be demolished.
Headteacher Stacey Budge said, “We were delighted to be offered the opportunity to replace the mobile classrooms with a permanent building. The project has progressed swiftly and we are excited that planning permission has now been granted.
“As the only infant school in Westbury, we specialise in the early education of children. These new classrooms are being purpose-built as reception classrooms to give our youngest pupils the very best start to school.
“The design of the new extension will enable our teaching team to provide wonderful learning opportunities for the children both inside and outside, enhancing our early years foundation stage provision.”
The planning permission also includes a design for an extra classroom to be built in the near future, so the school can expand as Westbury’s population increases. It is anticipated that the school’s ninth classroom will be needed by 2019.
The new classrooms will total 531 square metres; over 300 square metres bigger than the mobiles currently being used.
The double mobile classroom will be moved so it can still be used while building work is ongoing.
