Buildings affect our children’s learning

Published: 16 September, 2010

• SOUTH Hampstead High School headteacher Jenny Stephen says that the school’s buildings are no longer fit for purpose (Private school digs deep to modernise, September 9). 

Perhaps she could explain to Education Secretary Michael Gove, who believes there is little evidence that school buildings improve standards, why teaching children in inappropriate classrooms is not conducive to learning. 

In cancelling the Building Schools for the Future programme, Gove has condemned thousands of state school children to go on being taught in buildings that are not fit for purpose.
Jennie Walsh
Perrin’s Lane, NW3