Two new classrooms will be built at Brentnall Community Primary School on Northumberland Street in Higher Broughton to house an influx of new pupils.
The school’s main building needs space for 30 extra reception places by September 2015.
This new build will house 60 year 6 children, according to council planning documents.
Two new teaching staff will be recruited to cope with the extra pupils.
In a project remarkably similar to that going on at Willow Tree Primary School in Langworthy, two equally-sized 580sq ft classrooms will be installed in cream-coloured single-storey modular building (pictured below).
Another single-storey, flat-roofed, temporary building, it’ll sit behind the former caretaker’s house on the school grounds.
Additional work on the current school buildings was dismissed, as it would not be ready in time for the new school year in September.
Urban Vision are also handling the planning process here.
Over at Willow Tree, which needs space for 60 extra reception places by September, the building will stay up for at least two years – but is specifically denoted as temporary – and it’s assumed the same will happen here.
Brentnall was rated ‘Good’ in its last Ofsted inspection in 2013, with teaching quality, pupil achievement, leadership and management all scoring highly.
With 232 children age 3-11 on roll at last count, it’s smaller than the average primary school and desire for places is ever-increasing.
The head of Salford City Council’s Children’s Services department, Councillor John Merry, told this website in July 2015 that many more places needed to be found in the city’s primary schools because of a spike in demand.
He added that by September, the equivalent of 14 new primary schools would have have been created in Salford, and all signs pointed to having to increase the places on offer by the same amount over the next five years.
More of these ‘modular’ style buildings – referred to in some quarters, uncharitably, as Portakabins – are being built at primary schools in Swinton and Ellenbrook.
Read: Six months to build classrooms for 420 new school places in Ellenbrook and Swinton
Mesne Lea Primary School in Walkden is also undergoing a total rebuild worth around £4m which needs to be finished in time for the new school year.
Read: Work starts on two-storey £3.9m rebuild of Mesne Lea Primary School in Walkden
Rapid population growth in Salford means pupil places, especially at primary level, are at a premium.
A spokesman for Salford City Council said: “This will provide an extra 30 reception places at the school for this coming September to meet demand in the area.
“It’s part of our overall expansion plans for September 2015 to cope with Salford’s baby boom.”
