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Kings Lynn Special Complex Completed
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Kings Lynn Special Complex Completed - 18/09/2009
Earlier this year, Thorpe Kilworth completed the FF&E for Kings Lynn’s new build Special Needs Complex.
An ongoing review of SEN provision led Norfolk County Council to identify a need for its two special schools in Kings Lynn - Alderman Jackson and Ethel Tipple - to be replaced by one new local complex needs school serving a similar number of children currently going to the two schools.
The Department for Education and Skills awarded Norfolk County Council Children's Services funding to create a new £10.2 million 140-place all-age complex needs school in King's Lynn so more children and young people can be taught in their local area, closer to their home. It will also provide a model for future state-of-the-art complex needs schools in Norfolk. The new school will work closely with other local schools.
It is intended that the new complex needs school will:
o Provide for children and young people between the ages of 3 and 19
o Be a central part of the local learning community in West Norfolk
o Help support the inclusion of more children and young people with SEN in mainstream schools giving them further opportunities to succeed through outreach services
o Have extra facilities such as a resource base for teachers from mainstream schools and other Children's Services providers such as health and social care organisations
o Make multi-agency services much more available, improving the support to children and young people with SEN in West Norfolk.
The new school has been built on the site of the Ethel Tipple School.
Thorpe Kilworth fitted rooms at the school comprising of general classrooms, food technology, technology, art and science.