New mulit-million-pound science block to be built at Churchill Academy
An artist's impression of Churchill Academy's new science block. - Credit: Archant
A North Somerset school will build a multi-million-pound science block after it received Government funding.
Churchill Academy will receive £3.9million to build a new science and technology block which is due to be completed in 2018.
The new 14,000sqft building will boast 12 science laboratories and two food technology classrooms.
The school secured the funding through the Government’s Condition Improvement Fund (CIF), which is the only route academies can use to secure state funding.
The school was granted planning permission from North Somerset Council to build the two-storey complex in February.
Churchill hoped to build a new science block last year, but it failed to secure support from the CIF.
But the school did receive more than £1million to build a new business and information technology facility in 2016 – and the project is due to be completed before the end of the school year.
Most Read
- 1 Construction training centre opens in Portishead
- 2 Appeal launched to save town's Christmas light displays
- 3 Taxpayers paid £60k for Liam Fox's failed bid for WTO job: Reports
- 4 Portishead-Bristol bus plan would save £100 MILLION, campaigner claims
- 5 Work on new Cheddar pump track set to begin
- 6 New Clevedon charity is helping to create the scientists of the future
- 7 Burglars target 24 properties in North Somerset area
- 8 Court rules that Baytree School expansion can go ahead
- 9 Clevedon Lions Dream Scheme has opened to help good causes
- 10 Dramatic pictures show garage fire that spread to caravan
The school is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and the science classrooms which are currently in use were at the heart of the original school campus back in 1957.
Headteacher Chris Hildrew said students deserve ‘state-of-the-art’ facilities to enhance their studies.
He added: “We are delighted to receive this funding in our diamond jubilee year.
“Our main building has served us well for 60 years, but the students of 2017 deserve better than to receive their education in a building designed and built for the students of 1957.”
