The new campus, which was part of the Manchester BSF (Building Schools for the Future) programme, co-locates two existing schools on a single site – Cedar Mount (a 11-16 mainstream for 900 pupils) and Melland High School (a National Specialist SEN College for pupils aged 11-19 with a complex and diverse range of learning needs).
Awards
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Community Benefit Award
British Council for School Environments Award Best Healthy Learning Environment
The building features a two-storey 100m internal ‘street’, sports hall and community wing, a learning resource centre containing library and ICT facilities and specialist subject zones for Science, Humanities and English. There is also a medical suite on-site offering physiotherapy suites and a hydrotherapy pool.
The main objective for the project was to provide a modern, sustainable, flexible, fully accessible and inclusive education/community facility which has a minimal environmental impact. The key to this was balancing the identities and links of the two schools, thereby creating an educational campus where the pupils and community can learn and achieve together.
