ARTIST’S impressions of a multi-million pound school campus have been revealed.

Detailed plans of how Burnley High School will look have been published showing the new building on the former Habergham High School site.

Contained within a planning application for the new complex, the pictures show a three-storey school with a ‘super block’ at its centre with classrooms on all sides.

In a report to the council, a spokesman for the school said that a ‘super block’, a large internal space at the centre of the building, was added to foster a community feel and reduce anti-social behaviour.

The specialist subject areas will be located on the ground level with music and art located on the prominent approach corners to the building.

The sports hall and changing rooms will be to the east of the site with the staff and administration facilities also on the ground floor.

The main hall will include feature steps which will double as a seating amphitheatre.

At the top of the stairs there will be a library overlooking the playing fields and general teaching classrooms and special educational needs rooms.

The science department will be located in the building’s northern wing which will also house the sixth form and other general teaching classrooms. Councillors approved plans earlier this year to demolish the old school building and an application to construct the new site is still to be voted on.

The new Burnley High School, which is currently based at Parkhill Business Park, and will have space for up to 650 pupils with provision for a sixth form.

The Free School, which is run by the Chapel Street family of schools, opened with 33 pupils and is due to grow by around 90 students in September with the possibility of 90 more the following year.

The school’s executive principal, Elizabeth Haddock, said: “I am absolutely delighted with how our new school is progressing.

“We wanted the school to be as open as soon as possible.

“We have gone for a very modern construction called a ‘super block’ which creates a huge internal space with classrooms round the outside.

“This will suit our ethos and style of teaching which is very much project-based.

“It is exciting to finally see the plans and we are looking forward to the future.

“The space, light and openness of the design will make it a wonderful environment for our children to learn in. We can’t wait to move in.”