Pupils to leave tents as school building approved

Pupils will soon be able to move out of being taught in tents after a new school building was approved.

Children at Clevedon School had to be taught in two marquees since 2023, after the discovery of high alumina cement concrete (HACC) caused 22 classrooms to shut.

Plans to build a new school building have now been approved by North Somerset Council's planning committee on 14 May.

One parent wrote on the planning website: "This is desperately needed so that children don't have to be educated in tents anymore. They are freezing in the winter, sweltering in the summer and not sound proof so lessons are disrupted by noise from the next classroom."