School development underway

5:29pm Tuesday 20th May 2008

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A PROJECT to build a new sports hall and teaching block at a school in Wembley is now underway.

Builders have moved in at Preston Manor High School, in Carlton Avenue East, where £4.8m is being used to expand the 1,450 pupil school to provide an extra 14 classrooms.

Steve Rigby, deputy headteacher at the school, said: "The whole process is going really well, ten new classrooms will be ready by September.

"It will offer staff a better place to teach and students a better place to learn. We also hope there will be opportunities in the future for the public to enjoy the sports hall."

The new hall will be used for five-a-side football, badminton, basketball, trampolining and indoor cricket.

Mr Rigby said children at the school will face minimal disruption while the work is taking place.

He said: "All children are going to be taught in usable classrooms. The block of difficult refurbishment work will be done over the summer period."

From 2008 the school will take in an extra class in year seven which will then progress up through to GCSE until there is an extra form in every year.

The Department for Education and Skills is funding the project which is due to be completed by January 2009.