Our Facilities

Gateway Building

Opened in January 2015 the Gateway is an impressive building featuring high-quality teaching spaces, informal learning spaces, and lecture theatres (including a Harvard style lecture theatre); as well as a new student services centre.

Sports Facilities

The purposely designed teaching spaces house a range of seminars, lectures and practical sessions providing an excellent teaching space for primary and secondary education.

  • Arena
  • Astro
  • Alexander Sports Centre (ASH/ASC)
  • Aspire Gyms

Teaching Practice Collection

The Teaching Practice resource collection in the library offers a wide range of items that you can take into the classroom to enhance your teaching, these include:

  • Books for children organised in four sequences - non-fiction, storybooks, picture books and big books.
  • Audio-visual materials and objects - posters, wall charts, resource packs, games, story sacks, boxes of artefacts - for use in the classroom.
  • Off-air recordings of primary and secondary schools broadcasts

Forest School

The Forest School will provide extensive, challenging outdoor play experiences, an essential part of our early years education provision.

The Forest School from its beginning in winter until summer 2016