New build official opening

Today we welcomed a number of guests to officially open our new building. Patrick Leeson (Corporate Director, Children, Young People and Education at Kent County Council) cut the ribbon alongside our charity patron, celebrity auctioneer Raj Bisram and some of our pupils.

Following the official opening, Patrick Leeson thanked everyone involved with the new build by saying “I am so delighted that Five Acre Wood now has such a fabulous school building. It took a long time coming but now you have it and it looks wonderful. I know you will go on doing wonderful things with it and in it with Peggy and her excellent staff. It is an outstanding school”.

Peggy Murphy, Principal, also thanked everybody for their support.

The Five Acre Wood signing choir then performed to our special guests who included Roger Gough (cabinet member for Children, Young People and Education), Jared Nehra (Area Education Officer), Shellina Prendergast (Conservative councillor for Maidstone Rural East), governors and volunteers plus architects, project managers and staff from the construction companies who worked on the new build. The song that the choir performed to was ‘Celebrate good times’.

The group were then given a tour of the whole school, including the new building and the newly refurbished old building.

A plaque has been put up on the external wall to mark the official opening.