From the Council:

A turf cutting ceremony was held recently to mark the start of the construction of a new state-of-the-art education facility in Reddish. Work has now begun for Reddish North Primary School, Children’s Centre and Fir Tree Nursery School which will transform primary and early years education in the area.

The high quality new school will accommodate pupils from the current North Reddish Infants and Junior Schools and Fir Tree Primary Schools and will be fit for the 21st century. The new school will have places for over 500 children and is due to open in September 2011. It will include the following:-

· high quality teaching classrooms

· specialist areas for food, science and ICT

· special needs learning rooms

· childcare and multipurpose rooms

· wide range of hard and soft play facilities

· staff and visitor parking

· sports facilities available for community use