It used to be a threat in one part of Birmingham that if children were bad they'd be sent to Perry Beeches School. For years, Perry Beeches had been a cold, damp and dingy collection of 30-year-old huts that were a daily challenge for teachers and pupils.

Ingrid arrived four years ago with the bulldozers brought in to rebuild the school under a Private Finance Initiative deal worth £16.5 million for Perry Beeches as part of a larger £38 million PPP contract with Birmingham LEA for ten schools.