 The school will have 420 pupils aged five to 11 |
Britain's second Sikh school has moved a step closer after a council granted planning permission for the site. The state primary school is to be built in Slough, Berkshire, and will be one of only two such schools in the UK.
The government is providing �6.2m in funding, while the Sikh community must raise a further 10%.
The new school will take 420 pupils, including 84 non-Sikhs. The Guru Nanak Sikh School became Britain's first when it opened in west London in 1999.
A site has been earmarked next to St Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School in Wellington Street and it is hoped that it will open its doors by September 2006.
Slough has one of the highest Sikh populations in the country, at about 10,000.
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