Coppice Performing Arts School hosted its official opening today where a number of guests got the chance to see how £18million worth of Wolverhampton Building Schools for the Future (BSF) investment has benefited young people there.Peter Cutchie, chief executive of Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, unveiled the theatre while former BBC Midlands Today presenter Kay Alexander MBE opened the main school building.

The event also featured live vocal and dance performances, presentations and a tour of the new facilities for guests.

The theatre, named “Somnium” by the pupils, is the centrepiece of the new facilities and has a ‘box office’ feel to it to help the pupils showcase and celebrate their performing arts and school shows.

Other stunning new features now at Coppice include a brand new sports hall, dance studios and music suite, impressive new entrance, enhanced outdoor learning zones, new ICT facilities and a new ‘Discovery’ science zone with open plan learning areas.

Coppice was one of the first seven schools to benefit from the city’s BSF programme, which is completely transforming education and raising the aspirations and achievements of children and young people in the city.

July 2013