CHANGES could be on the way for Tenbury's high school, with plans for a new building.

A planning application has been submitted for a new class room block at the high school in Tenbury's Oldwood Road.

According to documents submitted to Malvern Hills District Council, the school wants to erect a single-storey music and drama block with associated hard and soft landscaping, gated access to the playing field, and an external air conditioning unit.

Leaders at the school also want to demolish the existing music and drama portable cabins, and provide four minibus parking spaces along with the associated reinstatement of land.

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Tenbury High Ormiston Academy, which has been using mobile classrooms for some classes for the last two decades, was handed an inadequate rating at its most recent Osted inspection, with the report published in March.

Inspectors rated it as 'requires improvement' in the quality of education, personal development, and leadership and management categories, and as 'inadequate' in the behaviour and attitudes category.

The report said leaders had a sensible behaviour strategy in place, which was starting to make improvements but too much learning was disrupted by off-task or silly behaviour.

A broad curriculum was found to be in place and leaders were working well to drive improvement, but high levels of staff absence had taken their toll, and pupils were found to have gaps in their knowledge.

Reading had been made a priority, but many instances of uncorrected spelling and grammatical errors were found in some pupils' work, and some teachers did not check learning sufficiently well to ensure pupils with special educational needs understood the work they were completing.

Principal Vicki Dean and her team have pledged to work tirelessly to make improvements to the school in the wake of the report.