Construction company Morgan Sindall is continuing to develop a new £15.4 million special educational needs school in Essex.

The project, funded by Essex County Council, includes a two-storey school which will include state-of-the-art facilities to support 210 children and young adults.

The building will feature 26 spacious classrooms, a hydrotherapy pool and specialist facilities to help meet the young people's sensory needs, including swing therapy rooms and a trampoline room to help promote body awareness, sequencing, postural control and organisation of the senses.


The new timber-frame school will comprise a rendered board exterior and will be built just yards away from the existing school site.

The new building will also include music rooms and design technology facilities to encourage creativity and various vocational bases including soft play rooms and two hall spaces for group activities.

Gavin Napper, Area Director at Morgan Sindall, said: "We're delighted to have been appointed to this important scheme, which will help to alleviate demand for special educational needs school places in Essex.

"Schools like Glenwood are truly exceptional places providing the very best support and learning opportunities for children and young adults with special educational needs. The outstanding facilities at the new building will provide a secure, innovative and exciting learning space for pupils at Glenwood School and we look forward to handing over the keys in time for the beginning of the autumn term in 2017."

(CD/JP)