Flimby Primary School is in line for a significant expansion programme after pupil numbers have risen to 160.

Approval has been given for a temporary classroom and toilet facilities but the county council is also looking at plans to create two new permanent classrooms and to extend the school hall.

The plans have been enabled by the fact that the county has finally been able to buy the old school house which sits on the school site and has been seen as a hazard.

Last year part of playground in front of the school was fenced off because of a fear of falling tiles from the old house.

Jacqui Wilson, headteacher, said when she arrived there were 111 children at the school.

At the start of this term there were 160, which will rise again in April with new starters.

She said the school had been unable to take two-year-olds like others in West Cumbria, because it did not have the room. 

The county council is looking at four options for extending the school premises.

One includes major repairs and refurbishment of the old school house to create offices and staff facilities.

She said the plans were waiting for spending approval by the county council, which was due in the next eight weeks.