Baby boom takes schools to breaking point

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Baby boom takes schools to breaking point

Two-shift day and use of empty Woolworths stores among ideas to cope with surge in primary age pupilsA council in east London is drawing up plans to convert an empty Woolworths store into a classroom and teach children in two shifts as part of emergency measures across Britain to cope with a dramatic increase in primary school age children. More than 450,000 extra primary age pupils will need places in schools in England by 2015, government figures show– partly the result of a baby boom in the past decade.