School Rebuilding Programme at Highams Park School

Highams Park School is excited to be part of the government's School Rebuilding Programme. You can read more about that here.

Since the announcement in 2021 the school has been working closely with the Department for Education and their advisors to come up with a design for the new school. This was submitted in July 2023 to the local planning department and finally received approval in June 2024.

The DfE have appointed Bowmer + Kirkland (B+K) as the main contractor.  B+K have an excellent record in building schools and we look forward to continuing to work with their team throughout the project.

Work began on site in early 2025. In September 2025 we moved into a high specification temporary building located on our field. We continue to work hard, in partnership with the DfE and B+K, to ensure that the disruption caused by the building work is kept to a minimum.

 We anticipate that the new building will be ready for us to move into for September 2027, with final demolition and landscaping works complete in 2028.

Final Design

Below is a flythrough of the final design.

Temporary Building

The temporary building has classrooms, IT rooms, Library, Canteen, toilets and offices in it. The image below is of the finished temporary building.

Construction Process

The demolition of the Main Building, West Wing, North Block and Learning Centre has been completed.

The installation of the Ground Source Heat Pump has been completed along with drainage works.

The sheet piling has been completed for the retaining wall.

The piling is underway and expected to complete towards the end of April 2026.

The steel frame construction will start towards the end of May 2026.

 You can see some images of the demolition below.

Demolition and Construction Gallery