Students’ enjoy new £32m Littlehampton academy

But for this band of plucky year-eight students (pictured on the front page) at The Littlehampton Academy, excitement certainly outweighed apprehension as they stepped into their new, state-of-the-art £32m school, on Monday.

The youngsters, who had all been at the academy’s ageing and now out-of-use site during their first year, said that the new building definitely had that “wow-factor” to it.

Charlotte Turner, 12, said: “Everything is really new and really modern. It looks really nice.”

Classmate Frankie Wormald agreed, but said a lot of the students were still adjusting to the new layout of the building.

“This school is so much larger than the other one,” he said. “We’ve already got lost a couple of times.”

And understandably so. The new school boasts more than 100 different classrooms and around 200 rooms – something which the year-eights admitted was a bit daunting.

The students are now looking forward to settling in and getting back into their normal term-time routine.

Keen footballer Lewis Bloomfield said he was excited about the prospect of stepping out on to the school’s top-of-the-range artificial turf pitch. He said he was sure the students would get used to the new building.

For a full feature about the rebuild, see next week’s Littlehampton Gazette.