School gets go-ahead for Send classroom expansion

Wrenn School is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year

A school will increase the number of special educational needs and disabilities (Send) classrooms it can offer after plans for a pair of new buildings were approved.

Wrenn School in Wellingborough operates across two sites and had plans it submitted to North Northamptonshire Council approved last week.

A new two-storey teaching block for the school at Doddington Road will provide four extra classrooms on an existing staff car park, while the London Road site will get six new classrooms.

A planning document relating to the London Road site states that "the school has an increasing Send cohort".

It said the classrooms were designed "to enable the space needed for "multi-agency working and counselling support students with additional needs".

It added: "These rooms will be multi-use ensuring both students and staff have spaces to meet the specific needs of students to encourage them to meet their full potential."

The Doddington Road site will also feature toilets and office or storage space.

The London Road's six classrooms will be divided between four on the ground floor and two on the first floor.

It will also feature facilities including a dining area and a sixth form common room.

Wellingborough Town Council had no objections to the development of either building.

Wrenn School is named after Harold Wrenn, the final headmaster of the former boys' grammar school.

The school is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, marking its formation in September 1975 through the merger of Wellingborough Grammar School and Wellingborough Grammar School for Girls.