School Rebuild News

Read about the progress of our School Rebuild Project

Build Update – January 2025

Here’s a New Year update on the progress of the new school build at Pinewood School.

The last months of 2024 saw the contractors demolishing the old school building once we had moved in o the temporary school on the field.

Since then they have been extremely busy building the base for a new electricity substation, rerouting services such as drainage and forming the new entrance road.

Since Christmas they have begun work on preparing the ground ready for the concrete base on which the new building will stand and we can expect to see that base being formed in the near future along with the first steel structures of the building being erected.

Build Update – July 2024

Work has progressed rapidly since our last update, with over 60 units from a total of 90 which make up the temporary school now delivered and installed on our playing field.

These units make up part of the main school building and a separate, a single story building also being built containing our dining hall, kitchen and sports & production hall.

A further delivery of units is due in the next few weeks. Students had a chance to view the temporary school and their classrooms before they left for the summer holidays to help them understand what to expect when they return in September.

Build Update 3 – June 2024

Work has progressed rapidly since our last update, with the over 30 units from a total of 90 which make up the temporary school now delivered and installed on playing field.

These units make up part of the main school building, with a single story building also due to be built containing our dining hall, kitchen and sports hall.

A further delivery of units is due in the next few weeks and in school we’re sharing progress updates with students and planning some supervised visits to the site to get a closer look at what school will look like from September.

Build Update 2 – May 2024

It’s now May and work has continued steadily on the temporary accommodation site. The groundworks are now almost complete with a level surface having been prepared ready for the delivery of the temporary building modules in the next few weeks.

By the end of May, the buildings should have been erected and work will begin on the fit-out.

The builders have their own ‘village’ which is secured off from the main school site for safety reasons. The gaps in the hoarding around the site are deliberate to allow students to watch the progress and prepare for the change that’s coming from September when we move in.