Work starts on £3.7m school at Rolls-Royce site

Construction is underway on a new school building on the Harrier Park development at the Rolls Royce site in Hucknall, following a £3.7m investment from Nottinghamshire County Council.

Due to be operated as an academy by Flying High Trust, the school is being delivered by Arc Partnership – a joint venture between Nottinghamshire County Council and Scape Group – and is set to complete in summer 2019, in time for the new academic year.

Councillor Kay Cutts MBE, leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “The new school is part of our priority to make Nottinghamshire a place people are proud to call home and where children and young people can go to good schools.

“We are already working on plans to deliver up to eight new schools across the county to provide more than 1,400 new primary and secondary school places, reflecting the pace of new home building programmes across our county, bringing new jobs and prosperity for people.

“Every child should have the opportunity to succeed and we intend to make sure they have and have the very best opportunities to set them forward for the future.”

The school, known as Hucknall Flying High Academy, will offer 210 places, with the option to extend this further to 315.