Staff move into £30m Rowley Learning Campus

Staff were moving into a new £30 million school in Rowley Regis today.

Work was completed at the Rowley Learning Campus, constructed from scratch under Sandwell's Building Schools for the Future programme, on Friday.

Once staff have moved in the first pupils will arrive on site on Wednesday. Youngsters from the Westminster school, currently in Westminster Road, West Bromwich, and the Whiteheath Pupil Referral Unit in Throne Road, Rowley Regis will be the first to receive lessons at the new Hawes Lane school.

They will be followed in the summer by students from St Michael's Business Enterprise College also in Throne Road.

In total 1,650 pupils will be based at the new school, which will be known as the Rowley Learning Campus.

A total of 36 students from Whiteheath will start on Wednesday, followed by 71 from Westminster the following week.

Pupils that are not taking exams will move from St Michael's in June, with those sitting GCSEs remaining at the Throne Road campus. Work started to create the school on the former Dudley College site in August 2009.

As the Rowley Learning Campus opens its doors construction is also nearly complete at Smethwick's Holly Lodge High School, which is being transformed as part of a £23.5m investment.