The popular volunteer-run setting in Portsmouth, Hampshire, is looking forward to its upgrade to the ‘large, open plan, flexible space’, with an added bonus of being able to up its provision by 50 per cent.
The move was enabled by Portsmouth City Council, which is under pressure to accommodate rising demand for school places at the Northern Parade School Campus, where the pre-school has been operating in the grounds.
Rather than making the pre-school homeless, the local authority made it a priority for the future of the site, in which it is set to invest £3.46m, allowing it to increase the school campus from three-form entry, to four.
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