The new £4.7m school that won't call itself a 'school'... because it has 'negative connotations'

It has 500 pupils, scores of classrooms, a headmistress, staffroom and playground. But woe betide anyone who refers to Watercliffe Meadow as a school. The word has been banished since it opened in September - because of its 'negative connotations'. Instead it is to be known as 'a place for learning'. Its head hopes the change will help 'de-institutionalise' the school.
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