Friends’ Junior School

– New Build News


Work star­ted on our new Infant and Nurs­ery School on 18th July and good progress is being made. Our new purpose built facil­it­ies should be ready for use by Summer 2012,  and will provide a modern setting in which our pupils will continue to be inspired and achieve their best. Our chil­dren are set to bene­fit enorm­ously from their new and excit­ing learn­ing environment.

View­ing Panels

If you have been making use of the view­ing panels around  the new Junior School construc­tion, you will have noticed that the single storey Nurs­ery and Recep­tion build­ing is now up to roof level and the canopy supports will be in place over half term. The room layout is clearly visible on the ground floor of the main two storey building.

MUGA – Multi Use Games Area

We are very proud of our new multi use games area which has been in use for a couple of weeks from before half term and the feed­back from all users is how true and respons­ive the surface is. The flood­lights are fant­astic and fully oper­a­tional.  We look forward to an exten­ded period of sports use through the winter. The new facil­ity has been made possible through a gener­ous grant from The Reckitt Trust.

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Car Park

The Car park works are almost complete and indeed we were able to use the major­ity of it for Open Morn­ing. However, we still await the final word on the soakaways from the Envir­on­ment Agency.  If this is forth­com­ing then the new car park should be completed for the second half of term, but we will let all users know as soon as there is a change in park­ing arrangements.

In the interim Senior School parents should continue to drop off and pick up their chil­dren on the drive as usual, while Junior School parents and school buses will continue to have the exclus­ive use of the completed portion of the car park. We would ask all parents to refrain from park­ing anywhere else on the site, and in partic­u­lar not to use the St John’s Close entrance.

Mean­while, we thank you for your support and patience in help­ing us continue to work as normally as possible during this diffi­cult phase.  We shall keep you abreast of devel­op­ments and hope that you will be able to keep to our contin­gency arrange­ments and thereby help to promote the health and safety of all who work and live on the school site.


Above illus­tra­tions are artist’s impressions.