The Latymer Facilities Department carries out building and maintenance projects around the Upper School and Prep School sites on a rolling basis. Much work carried out revolves around setting up specific layouts for events and assemblies, moving supplies around the school and on a day-to-day basis making sure the facilities and communal areas are running efficiently.

On top of these crucial elements in the daily running of the school buildings, the facilities department undertake various building and maintenance projects. Small to medium projects with in-house staff and external contractors; and in the case of larger projects, the Project Manager and Deputy Head are involved in all building and architectural decisions to better exact the outcome and expectations of the building.

Latymer Performing Arts Centre

In April, Sir John Tooley, former Director of the Royal Opera House, opened our state of the art Latymer Performing Arts Centre.  This houses a 100 seat recital hall, music practice rooms, a dance and drama studio and sixth form teaching rooms.

Pupils are now benefitting from this fantastic new space, both for music, dance and drama and for teaching.  721 pupils take individual music lessons at the School and this building allows them more space and opportunity to develop and show off their talents. 

Click here to see photos of the Performing Arts Centre.

New Science Building and Library Resource Centre

The next stage of building will be the new Science and Library building, for which full planning permission has been awarded by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.  The new building will comprise:-

• Purpose designed library study area
• Physics/Chemistry/Biology Departments
• The laboratories will be purpose built to teach Lower/Middle School and Sixth Form classes

Work has now commence on the demolition of the existing old physics block and will continue over the summer holidays.  The new building should be ready and in use by September 2009.

Phase One

• Knock down single storey physics - Summer 2008
• Replace with a new block - 18 month build with completion in April 2010

Facilities included in the new building:

• Library research facility on ground floor
• Science laboratories/prep rooms on the other 3 floor
• IT rooms throughout the building
• Lift link from the building to the Lower School Building

Phase Two

• Reallocation of Physics, Biology and Chemistry labs to other uses including 2 IT suites, a new server room and technicians rooms
• Knock down double storey physics and IT

 

The photos below are of the construction of the Performing Arts Centre, taken over the last 18 months whilst work was in progress.