£200,000 for extensions at Rushden School

In their estimates for the 1969-70 school building programme, the Northamptonshire County Council have set aside nearly £200,000 for extensions, improvements and the remodelling of Rushden Secondary Boys School.

The actual estimated expenditure will be £197,000, nearly one quarter of the total estimated for the building programme for the county, which is about £878,000.

Extensions and improvements are to be made, to make way for a fourth form entry. The hutted classrooms at the back of the main school building will be done away with, having been in use for nearly twenty years, and the existing school buildings will be remodelled.

Mr. H. W. Catlin, headmaster of the school, said that it was too early to make any comment, but he was very pleased that the school had been included in the building programme for 1969-70.