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Building tomorrow's schools today
Published:  01 October, 2007

The first brand new school has opened under the £45bn Building Schools for the Future scheme, but how is the plan to rebuild or refurbish all England's secondary schools progressing?
There is a real "wow" factor when you walk through doors of the £24m Bristol Brunel Academy, the school's new principal Armando di Finizio says.

"It's incredible really - it's a cross between a shopping mall and Hogwarts because there are all these stairs criss-crossing."

The whole school is a wi-fi zone. It features independent learning areas and uses biomass boilers to provide about 80% of its energy. It really is a school of the future.

"When you first walk in there is this 'wishing wall' which has a whole load of wishes from staff and pupils carved into stones," Mr Di Finizio says.

One reads: "I wish more children could enjoy having a school like this."




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