School plans a third storey

San Anton School plans to expand upwards by building a third floor on a large portion of its current footprint through an €800,000 investment, The Times has learnt. The investment will give the private school 10 more classrooms, a resource room and a multipurpose hall that can accommodate all the children in either the junior or the senior sector. San Anton, an independent not-for-profit school set up by the Parents’ Foundation for Education, was built in the early 1990s above the picturesque valley of Imselliet. Despite controversy over the environmental impact of the school at the time, the site later came to house a second school, San Andrea, set up by the same foundation. “This is a major investment for the school and one which must be carefully conceptualised, planned and financed. “Our plans are to go ahead with this investment in summer 2013,” San Anton School’s board chairman Simon Flynn told parents in a circular over the past days, stressing that the school would go through the appropriate processes. “Our plans are to fund the investment over 12 years, meaning that those who benefit most from the investment will ultimately end up paying more for it,” Mr Flynn said. An...