A £2.5MILLION new teaching block has been officially opened.
The new facility will mean teachers and students at Ramsden Hall School, Ramsden Heath, can move out of unsuitable rooms in the old Ramsden Hall to purpose-built classrooms.
The boarding school caters for boys aged between 11 and 16 who have behavioural, emotional or social difficulties, and the new block means it can take on more pupils.
The old building will be used for boarding, administration and other services which the school provides for pupils.
Essex County Council funded the new facility, and head of learning Terry Reynolds cut the red ribbon on the new building.
Julie Landragin, the school’s administration manager, said: “We have been struggling for a long time because the school was in an old manor house, and all the rooms used as classrooms weren’t big enough.
“It really wasn’t suitable, so the new teaching block is great.”
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