A high school is to receive a £400,000 makeover over the summer holidays.

Come September, pupils from Thorpe Bay School, in Southchurch Boulevard, Southend, will be greeted with a transformed school.

The money has been allocated by the Local Education Authority to complete the work which is due to begin next month.

Plans include:

A new drama room

Refurbishment of pupil toilets and new additional toilets

Air conditioning in the computer suite

Removal of demountable buildings

Headteacher Jean Alder said: "It will make such a difference to the way the students view the school. It will be somewhere they can be proud of."

Published Thursday, June 12, 2003

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