Pupils at Leicester Grammar School and Leicester Grammar Junior School have now been located on our new school site in Great Glen for over two years and they have been thoroughly enjoying the modern and numerous facilities now available to them. The £33 million project ,which opened in 2008, created the finest, purpose-built independent school in the country in over a decade and brought together the two schools on one site for the first time. As such, we can now offer co-education to boys and girls from the age of 3 up to 18 in one convenient rural location.

The school complex consists of a 13,500 sq.ms two storey building built mainly in red brick with some render and feature cedar cladding. The main school is laid out along a north-south "street" with the double-height entrance and reception, hall and the refectory placed to the west and teaching accommodation located in four curriculum wings to the east punctuated by landscaped courtyards.The buildings have been designed to incorporate sustainable technologies and to minimise energy usage by high levels of insulation, natural lighting and natural ventilation.

The main teaching block has a large double-height, fully glazed library at its heart, 14 dedicated science laboratories and a lecture theatre, a music school and recital room complete with recording studio, a drama studio, an assembly hall to seat 900 people and a refectory that will accommodate 450 diners. The sixth form lounge provides a central hub for the A level students and there is an on-site cafe exclusively for their use. There is also a linked, but at the same time self contained, junior school that has its own entrance, hall and playgrounds.

Both schools benefit from a surrounding 75 acres of grass playing fields which include two floodlit all weather hockey pitches, 5 rugby pitches, a dedicated cricket pitch and 8 hard tennis/netball courts.The pitches were all sown in early 2007 and have now had three growing seasons. The indoor sports complex offers 6 badminton courts, basketball, netball and indoor cricket nets in the main hall, a gym/dance studio, a well equipped fitness suite and a 6 lane, 25 metre heated indoor swimming pool. There is also a sports pavilion that has integral changing rooms and an upstairs club house with viewing platform overlooking the main rugby, hockey and cricket pitches with further views across the Sence valley.

The entire site is fully networked with significant investment in IT including computers - there are 50 in the library alone- laptops, interactive whiteboards and projectors. There is car parking for over 170 cars and the school buses stop directly outside the main school building.

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