Community school planning replacement building

Chiltern Primary School has about 480 pupils

A community school is planning improvements to its facilities.

Chiltern Primary School, off Chiltern Street in east Hull, has applied to Hull City Council to demolish a modular building and replace it with a classroom and community building.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), the new facilities would include two classrooms for a teacher and up to 30 pupils, specialist cookery and music classrooms, a community room, meeting rooms and a room for parents and toddlers.

Head teacher Jacqueline Marshall told the LDRS the modular building is “coming to the end of its life”.

“The building is heavily used by the children for cookery and music and on other occasions by our parents as our community hub," she said.

The school, which has about 480 pupils and serves the Hessle Road area of the city, was granted permission for a new assembly and activity hall in 2023.

But Ms Marshall said subsequent groundwork found the land was too soft for the hall without the extra cost of pile foundations for the building.

“We have therefore reconsidered the plans,” she added.

The extra classrooms in the new building are planned as a relocation from the main school building, the LDRS adds.

This would then allow for the old, large classroom space to be turned into another sport/dance/drama/assembly area.

Chiltern Primary is part of Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust. It was converted into an academy in 2016 and has a therapy dog called Lucky.

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