Morgan Sindall has been selected to deliver a £14.2 million primary school expansion project in London.

A new school building will be developed for Tufnell Park Primary School to allow the school to double its capacity from 315 pupils to 630 pupils by 2025.

Features of the building will include a bright and spacious interior with light wells reaching up three floors in the main corridors, as well as a double-height foyer with a glass-fronted library designed to give an impressive, inspirational feel to the entrance space. The library has been designed to create a new ‘heart' at the centre of the school building, located near to the main entrance to encourage visitors and the wider community to celebrate learning.

The new multi-use games area (MUGA) and halls will be available to both the school and local residents for community use outside of the school day.

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Richard Dobson, Area Director at Morgan Sindall's London office, said: "Tufnell Park is a well-established and much-loved part of a growing community in Islington and we're delighted to be working together with Islington Council on our third school in the last two years. The new building will enable teachers and staff to continue to deliver an outstanding teaching experience for pupils, ensuring that every child is given the best start to their educational journey.

"Our project team is extremely experienced and adept at delivering high-quality education projects, often working in logistically challenging urban environments across London, and on live sites. We will bring this knowledge to bear on this development, doing our utmost to minimise disruption, engage both school users and the local community and manage the project to a high standard to ensure the journey to completion is a positive one for all stakeholders.

"To this end, we've selected an offsite modular system, by Eco Modular, to minimise construction traffic, dust and noise that would typically impact a school and its local community."

Cllr Joe Caluori added: "Tufnell Park primary school is hugely popular with local families and rightfully so.

"With strong demand for school places here, we wanted to make sure the expanded school would create a high-quality, pleasant and airy learning environment that helps to get the best out of pupils and teachers – and with facilities and spaces that are fit for the future, too. I am already looking forward to taking a tour of the finished building."

The project is expected to complete in Spring 2020.

(LM)