A 4. 5 million pound school in Blackpool, designed particularly for academics with desires for social, emotional and intellectual aptitude, is about to end and will be able to welcome its first academics this month.
Major contractors, the Preston-based Eric Wright Group Special Projects Team, recently handed over lotus school keys on Langdale Road to the Champion Education Trust in time to prepare the school for the fall period that opens to its first students. Friday, September 4.
The school has been specially designed to accommodate students who have an education, fitness and social, emotional and intellectual care plan as a first need. It has been carefully designed to ensure that students who have struggled for widespread education receive full support for success. .
Lotus School up to 48 students in grades 6-11 and is the only school of its kind on the Fylde Coast.
This means that students will no longer have to leave the municipality to access the specialized education they need.
All students will have other curriculum courses that will offer key subjects along with curative interventions that will help them expand and re-engage in school life.
The 19,375-square-foot construction has been carefully designed to satisfy the desires of SEMH students. Each of the six main study rooms is smaller than in a classical school, as stylish sizes will reflect each student’s desires.
Lotus School has a science lab, a food generation lab, art and design rooms, a musical and a gym.
There are also a number of treatment and sensory rooms committed to the use of school psychologists, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists.
Students will also be able to expand their independent living skills at Life Experience Flat, such as learning to use a washing device and budgeting for food and other bills, as well as two specialized outdoor spaces.
Students will also have the opportunity to browse off-site and participate in educational activities, paintings and paintings in netpaintings.
Principal Rachel Kenworthy said: “I am very happy with our new school and really excited to welcome our new students in early September.
“All children, no matter where they start or where they come from, are entitled to an education that prepares them for adulthood, and Lotus School can give them the safety, stability and good fortune they need. “
The Blackpool Council has secured the overall investment of 4. 5 million pounds for the school through a flexible budget for schools for special education in 2017/2018 through the Ministry of Education.
In collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the structure was commissioned through a style of self-referral through the Blackpool Local Education Association and Eric Wright’s Special Projects Team.
Cllr Kath Benson, a member of the Cabinet of Schools, Education and Aspiration, said: “It is glorious that we have a facility like this in Blackpool that can feed our young people and make a genuine difference in their early life.