£250,000 revamp is planned at Cheslyn Hay school

A £250,000 revamp is planned for a Staffordshire school. An ICT and sixth form centre is due to be created at Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community School.

Teachers said the work will bring it into the 21st century.

It is hoped the project will be completed at the Saredon Road school over the summer holidays ready for the new academic year.

Peter Grew, director of business and finance, said a total of £200,000 will be spent on the new sixth form centre and £50,000 on the ICT suite.

"It will mean 75 more computers for our ICT suite and overall the facilities will be much better," he said.

"It has been a number of years to draw all of the funding together."

Once the work is completed, space will be freed up in the main block.

The area the sixth form students currently use for lessons and recreation will become the ICT suite.

The latest work follows construction work in 2010, when the school replaced two mobile classrooms with a new six-room modular block.

The proposal has been sent to education and planning chiefs at Staffordshire County Council to seek approval.

The planning report says the work is essential and will benefit more than 200 sixth form pupils.