Bromham C of EPrimary School
Local population growth created a significant need for additional school places across Bedfordshire.
Playing an important part of Bedford Borough Council’s three-to two-tier conversion programme, Bromham lower school converted to a three form-entry primary school by increasing it’s capacity and retaining years five and six.
Sector
Education
Services
Architecture
Status
Completed September 2017
Client
Bedford Borough Council
Location
Bedford
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About the project
Bromham needed to offer an extra 330 school places overall; more than doubling it’s capacity.
We carried out an extensive feasibility study, defining how the school could be developed to create a successful learning environment, accommodate the increase in pupil numbers, as well as provide additional classrooms and improved facilities. It was proposed that the existing kitchen and hall would be converted into classrooms, with construction of an additional seven classrooms and larger, improved facilities.
The school’s existing undersized hall and kitchen were converted into classrooms, and a larger hall, kitchen facilities and seven spacious new classrooms were constructed utilising offsite technology. The extension includes a wide central learning street with breakout areas suitable for group and solo working and a courtyard play area - providing a light, spacious and inspiring environment.
OUTCOME
Bromham now benefits from refurbished amenities and a new, single-storey, seven classroom building with a large hall. Through utilising offsite construction, we reduced the timescale of the programme to just 24 weeks and minimised disruption to the live school site during construction. By 2024 the school’s population will have grown naturally, accommodating 630 pupils between the ages of four and eleven.
Virginia Gilks, Headteacher of Bromham C of E Primary School
