‘EXCITING times ahead’, says a Newton Abbot primary school as work begins on what is to become its new nursery unit.

Work to construct Wolborough Primary School’s new nursery unit is ‘well underway’, the school has said.

The work, made possible thanks to the Department for Education’s school-based nursery capital grant, is due to be completed in February.

The school sought permission to demolish the existing PE store and extend the Rundle Room building to provide ‘a dedicated nursery facility, including raised decked play area, canopy and associated external works’ back in November 2024.

Teignbridge District Council gave the green-light in July, with work having started this month.

Once the work is complete, Wolborough will be opening its doors to children from the age of two-years-old.