Introduction to the Oakwood Primary School Project

In June 2009, ADP architects were commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council to replace two existing Cheltenham school: Lynworth Primary School and Whaddon Primary School with a new building on the Lynworth school site. Gloucestershire County Council and the two schools had acknowledged that due to the falling numbers of pupils in the area, the need and the ability to run two primary schools was becoming unsustainable.

ADP have been commissioned to work with the schools to establish the following:

- To understand the ethos of the two schools and the relationship with its community.
- To establish any special facilities that the existing schools offer to its staff, pupils, parents and its community.
- To review the existing schools site and building stock against the DfES guidelines for primary schools of the future and Gloucestershire County Council guidelines for their own primary school development plan.
- To establish what a primary school of the future would need to be to support this area and through the potential federation of the two schools.



Arial view of both school sites