Student Workshop - Design Day!

On the 18th May we held a Design Day at Robinswood Primary School. Pupils from Robinswood,  Hillview and Dinglewell Primary School joined us as we spent the day designing our 'Dream' Primary School.

We discussed how you know a building is a school, what makes a good school both inside and out, what they liked and disliked about their schools and then prioritised these into a list of 'Big Ideas' to help us design our 'Dream' school.

We then split into two teams and developed ideas and mood boards before coming up with our final designs using Sketchup, collage, drawing and montage to convey our ideas.

At the end of the day, the two teams presented their schemes to Martin (the Head of Robinswood) and Ash from Carter Construction.

The pupils from all of the Schools were superb and came up with some really fantastic ideas, some of which challenged our thinking on the early concept designs for Coopers Edge...it was also great to see them present their schemes at the end of the day and debate/defend their ideas with a real sense of ownership over their designs!

Visits

We have visited a number of other schools whilst developing the brief for the new School. 


On Tuesday 27th April we spent the day visiting two Schools that had recently been completed and had a community focus. Staffordshire County Council kindly organised these visits and were on hand to explain the history behind the design and development of the Schools.


We saw lots of things at both schools that we liked and disliked and certainly found the day worthwhile.


A number of important themes came out of the visits namely;

- The opportunity of using the Small Hall to provide a Dance Studio/

Multimedia Space that could also be available to the wider Community

- Covered 'Inside-Outside' Space that could provide a wide range of uses for both the school and the wider community

- Grouping the Specialist Teaching areas into 'Heart-spaces' that allow for improved informal and distance learning

- Potential for covered 'Outside Classroom' spaces

- The benefits of considering the landscape and outside learning areas so that they can support the teaching and learning rather than being an 'afterthought'

The Schools that we visited were:

Redhill Primary School, Worcester

Littleton Green Community School, Staffordshire

Redbrook Hayes Primary School, Staffordshire

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