Highfurlong Special Needs School
- Location: Blackpool
- Client: Blackpool Council
- Type: New Build
- Status: Completed
The new building at Highfurlong School offers its students and their families much-needed facilities to extend the programme of activities and increases the capacity of the existing school for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
What we did
- Town Planning Consultancy
- Lead Architect role
- Detailed tender and construction package
- Co-ordinating with the client/design team
- Construction stage involvement through to completion
The new building includes six classrooms, a specialist teaching room for the delivery of practical subjects such as science, food technology and life skills together with a state of the art hydrotherapy pool.
Further ancillary services include a kitchen with dining and multi-use space, toilets and hygiene suites, as well as a community-facing café to encourage the local community to engage with the school.
Funded by government funding for new school places and SEND, the standalone extension has doubled the capacity of the school and connects to the existing school via a covered walkway.
The new building provides key learning and support environments to build upon an outstanding school and help facilitate the transition of pupils through teenage into adult life. As well as core learning indoor and outdoor environments, the café and shop will help to develop the pupils’ enterprise skills as part of a real-life curriculum preparing pupils for adulthood and to gain work experience.
Thank you
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