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North Swindon Schools PH Project
Learning Campus

A state-of-the-art Learning Campus,
incorporating the four schools below,
will be built in North Swindon.
Primary School 6 is a new primary
school with a nursery.

Secondary School 1 will be a new
secondary school for 11-16 year olds
incorporating community and sports
r' facilities.
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The new Brimble Hill Special
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School will provide education for two
to eleven year old children with severe
learning difficulties and profound and
multiple learning difficulties.
Prinmry School 6: Re reation .-I rca
The new Uplands Special School
will provide education for eleven to
nineteen year old students with severe
New Schools to be the Heart of the Community learning difficulties and profound and
multiple learning difficulties.
SWINDON will get seven brand new provided at both of the secondary In addition, a Multi Agency Unit will
schools through the North Swindon schools. be located between the two special
Schools PFI Project. This is great news schools capable of serving all four
There are also other facilities that will be
for the staff and pupils of these schools
built and be available to the community, schools on the Learning Campus and
who will benefit from state of the art
some during the day. These include: the surrounding community. The Unit
facilities. The good news doesn't stop will contain a hydrotherapy pool, a
there though - the schools are also great • Internet cafes at both of the physiotherapy room, a speech therapy
news for the local community. secondary schools room and rooms that can be used as
One of the key goals of the project was to • A new youth centre at Moredon clinics and by social workers.
provide facilities that would be available
• Youth and community rooms at the
to the local conununity out of school
Learning Campus
hours. The wide rare of facilities that
the community will have opportunity to Lastly, but by no means least, the project
use include: will provide another hydrotherapy pool
for Swindon. The pool will be located
• Sports — a wide range of sports 11
on the Learning Campus and will be
facilities including sports halls, a
available to the pupils of the special
gymnasium, two floodlit five a side
schools and to the people of Swindon.
football pitches, a floodlit all weather
sports pitch, grass pitches for rugby, Further information on the facilities
football, hockey and athletics, tennis, available will be published as the opening
netball and basketball courts, a dates draw nearer.
cricket pitch and both indoor and
outdoor practice nets.

• Social Event Venues — there are
a wide range of rooms that will
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be available to hire for weddings,
parties, charity events, dances and
other social events.
• Lifelong Learning — the schools
could be available as outreach centres
for Universities and Colleges to
deliver courses in the evenings, on s1g
weekends or during breaks in the
school terms.
• Arts — Arts organisations such as
theatre, dance, drama and music
groups could be accommodated in
the specialist facilities that will be
Uplands Special School: Entronre Courtyard