Facilities and Development
Since 1950, The King’s School has been based at its Wrexham Road site on the outskirts of Chester. It has a Sixth Form Centre, a library (the Wickson Library) and a music school (the Tim Turvey Music School). Sports facilities include a swimming pool, all-weather sports pitches, grass sports pitches, a cricket pavilion, and a boat house on the River Dee. During the summer of 2011, there was a £1.2 million renovation of the school hall, creating the Vanbrugh theatre - (named after former pupil, Sir John Vanbrugh, theatre architect and dramatist) which has retractable raked seating. The project was part-funded by a legacy from former pupil Roger Snelson, and the theatre was opened by former pupil Ronald Pickup.
After the school became co-educational, a major redevelopment and enlargement program was undertaken, including:
- changing rooms and toilets (2002)
- classrooms for the Junior School (2002)
- all-weather pitch with floodlighting (2003)
- Tim Turvey Music School (named after the former headmaster) (2007)
- refurbishment of science labs (2007-2008)
- language lab (2008)
- extension of kitchen facilities (2008)
- redevelopment of the old library into offices and a classroom (2008)
- redevelopment of the old Headmaster's house into offices and change of use of the "Tower" (where the offices used to be) to house the Economics and Business Studies Department (2009)
- Vanbrugh Theater (2011)
- Sixth Form Centre development (2012)
- Modernization of science lab (2012)
- additional classrooms (2012)
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