Over the past fifteen years there has been a huge expansion in the number of staff working in schools.  At Breakspear Junior School we have gone from around 25 in the early 1990s to 49 at the present time.  Frequently for staff meetings we are more than 25 and can no longer fit in the existing staff room.  Several years ago the governors considered how the school could satisfactorily accommodate all its staff.  Various options were considered - including building on the roof!  In the end, a joint project with the Infant School of building on largely unused land in the quadrangle was considered.  Yes, there would be losses, in particularly of natural light in one of the corridors (but that was already largely the case for the entrance lobby, so not a new experience), but the significant gains in space would certainly compensate.  So plans went ahead during 2007 with a successful tender being accepted in January 2008.  There were some last minute complications with getting the project formally agreed in the Civic Centre 
- and then, on Monday 7 April, work began. 

Before works began:
- The Quadrangle -

- The Infant School office and east corridor -

- Along the Junior corridor -

- and the TV room -

Work started on 7 April, the first day of the long spring holiday (for the first time ever this was two weeks after Easter).  
This was to be the first of several noisy, messy, parts of the job 
- so the long holiday was an ideal time to get it out of the way.  
The windows needed to come out on the east corridors (Infants and Juniors) 
and doorways cut into the southern most bays of these corridors. 

Out come the windows...

and the spaces are bricked up.