Creating a New School

Description

This programme charts the creation of the Hadley Learning Community, a new PFI scheme state-of-the-art extended school.

The school is designed to provide 21st Century learning environments for a deprived area of Telford, in rural Shropshire. The programme follows the school's principal as she makes crucial design decisions about how the school should be built.

The school will include a 1,200 place secondary school, a 420 place primary school and a special school. Community facilities on the site include a nursery, a children's centre, a theatre and a public swimming pool.

An entire staff has been recruited and an innovative cross phase curriculum has been developed for this blueprint for the 'Building Schools for the Future' scheme.

Part of the series: Future School