Pupils and staff at a Warwickshire primary school have buried a time capsule at the site of their new £3.9m school as construction of the building nears completion.

Items including photographs, newspapers, letters from some of the children, and a DVD were put into the capsule to commemorate the year the school in Arley, Warwickshire was built.

The ceremony at Arley Primary School was attended by teachers, pupils, Marcus Jones MP for Nuneaton, and representatives from construction firm Willmott Dixon and construction procurement, design and consultation specialists Scape.


Work started on the construction of the new school in July last year. It is due to open at the end of March 2014.

The new school will amalgamate Gun Hill Infant School and Herbert Fowler Junior School, and will accommodate up to 315 children.

Arley Primary School is being built using a system called Sunesis, which uses standardised but visually appealing designs to reduce costs and construction timescales.

Mark Robinson, Chief Executive at Scape, said: "Sunesis provides high quality, modern schools which are delivered on average 12 months faster and 30 per cent cheaper than market alternatives – which is what makes them so appealing.

"Sunesis gives councils that need to improve their learning spaces and provide more places for growing numbers of pupils, real value for money without any compromise on standards."

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