21st March 2018
Turnham Primary School on PSM Magazine
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As building projects go, Turnham Primary School's recently completed second floor extension involved more challenges than most....
It's one thing to construct a major extension on top of an existing, mid 20th century-era school building. It's quite another to do so with pupils continuing to attend lessons while the building work goes on above them. ...>
<....So what aspect of the school's new building is Halliwell [executive headteacher] most pleased with? "The dance studio right at the top is an amazing space for a number of reasons. It's allowed us to specialise in creative provision for dance, but also meant that for the first time of the school history, we're able to hold whole school assemblies. Seeing that is amazing. I also think the quality of the actual build itself is really high. I've worked with a number of new build schools, and I haven't seen a spec as strong as the one I've seen here.">
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