School block on schedule

From the archive, first published Monday 10th Dec 2001.

Staff and students were keen to see the start of construction on a new £2m teaching block for their school in Oxford.

Cheney Upper School headteacher Alan Lane visited the site with students, including Rachel Wilcox, Esther Kwanda, and Alisia Tomas.

Diggers rolled into action at the school in Cheney Lane, Headington, in the latest phase in the school's £6m building programme.

The work will allow the 1,000-strong school to take in 450 more pupils, after the closure of the city's middle schools in 2003. The block will contain design and technology workshops, classrooms for business education and personal and social education, and the school's careers department.

School spokesman Peter Desmond said: "It is an exciting time for the school.

"We are pleased with the progress that's being made getting ready for 2003.

"The new block should fit in nicely with the existing buildings."

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