HAMPSHIRE’S education chiefs have pumped £496,000 into expanding a primary school.
Work on building two more permanent classrooms at Rownhams Primary School is due to start this summer and be completed by next spring.
The first pupils and staff will move in during summer term 2014.
The new classroom will replace a temporary classroom at the Bakers Drove-based school.
Hampshire’s cabinet spokesman for education, Peter Edgar said: “From the information I have considered, and a visit I have made personally to the school, I am satisfied that the existing temporary classroom situation at the school is unsatisfactory and not sustainable.”
Rownhams Primary School currently has ten classrooms and 287 pupils on its roll but this number is expected to grow as more housing is built in the village.
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