All the staff gave their free afternoon to come and play games with me!! "Design-Your-Own-School" board game! we had lots of little perspex pieces that the staff needed to arrange how they wanted the classrooms to work and then how those all fitted together to make a school.
It was great fun and i hope helpful for the staff to have an understanding of the issues that we all need to tackle in order to get the BEST building for your school we can! There were some themes that came out of it - cloaks and toilets were the most talked about issues - where they were in relation to the classroom - directly off the classroom / off the playground or off the corridor.
We then talked through the four options and took a vote! Options 2 and 5A didn't receive ONE vote! [didn't think they were that bad guys!], but the conclusion was that we were going to develop options 5B and 6 into more detail, up until the 4th November when the school needs to decide which option to go for. Its a big decision - but if you simplify it all - the most distinct difference is option 5B is one-storey and option 6 is two-storey. The latter meaning that Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 will not have direct access to outdoor play. But both are potentially GREAT schools, so we shall see!
Nicola
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