£3 million renovation to upgrade and expand school
A COVENTRY secondary school is undergoing a £3 million renovation to upgrade and expand the building.
The work at Foxford School in Longford will see more sixth form classrooms created along with a new canteen, a new sports hall and an administration block.
The administration block will is a brand new building that will come fully equipped with conference centres for students in lectures. The canteen will be a stateof-the art food court with different stations offering students a variety of food and drink.
The sports hall, which is now complete, comes with brand new sports apparatus in a modern and well-equipped facility. More classrooms will come with Apple TVS installed to aid children’s learning.
Phoenix Castle Trust has donated £2 million to the school’s expansion project while Coventry City Council has given £1 million. The school is being expanded to help it cater for its growing number of students.
The number of sixth form students entering the school this academic year has nearly doubled. The school says the expansion will create a better environment for pupils in order to help them learn and improve their mental and physical well-being.
Headteacher at Foxford School Alison Gallagher said: “We’ve mainly remodelled the school because of growing numbers of pupils. We’ve gone from 90 sixth form students to over 160 this academic year, we’ve nearly doubled.
“We’re having additional students so we’ve had to extend facilities. We want to make sure we have a larger sixth form, new canteen, a new sports hall, a new administration block with conference centres sixth formers can go in and have lectures there. Our canteen facilitates 77 students and we’re expanding it to cater to over 400 students. We will have more classrooms and now we’ve opened our new sports hall building because we want to invest in their fitness and health.
“We want to put some life back into the school site and makes sure our students are getting the best for learning and give the best to them. The canteen is going to be state of the art looking like a food court, different stations they can go to. There will be Apple TVS in classrooms and conference rooms and in the sports hall has new sports apparatus going in there.”
The sports hall is now complete. The administration block is due to be completed later this month.
The sixth form building will be open for use around February and the canteen will be fully operational at Easter time 2023. All work is due to complete by next spring.