Location:
Carlton, Drax
Client:
Holy Family Catholic High School
Approx Value:
£2m
This £2m refurbishment and extension work consists of, on one side, a two-storey
classroom extension and on the other a four-court Sports Hall with associated
changing facilities.
The two-storey classroom extension provides much needed additional teaching space,
including a music classroom with practice rooms built to the current acoustic
standards and recommendations. The new circulation links through to the main teaching
corridors on both floors and provides a second stair and access to new external
areas improving the circulation throughout the whole school.
The four-court Sports Hall stands a little apart from the main school but linked
by a single storey changing facility. These new changing facilities completely
replaced the existing changing rooms and altered the area around them to provide
a generous circulation corridor which now connects the classrooms to the dining
hall. The Sports Hall and Changing Block are also able to be let out as a stand
alone facility to the wider community.
The two extensions along with several specialist classroom refurbishments within
the existing building transform the school into a fully equipped modern high school.