The headteacher reconsiders the assumptions about classrooms within the plans. The paired classroom assumptions are reconsidered and a new shape and relationship to one another is designed. The new design is taken to staff for discussion, and then to governors and NPS. The principal of the design is agreed, as it resolves the central atrium issues and is in budget.
Amended plans are brought forward, twisting the design on an angle to reduce the scale. The design has the advantage of space to expand in the future should the school expand, but the costs of the plan are over budget. The planning reaches crisis point, with no plan available within the budget.
The headteacher visits the building project in Kings Lynn, and shares insights with governors and NPS before the architect redraws the plans. New plans, reflecting the governors’ brief, are presented. The plan includes eight new classes, but the central shared space is both very large and stretched to the shape similar to a corridor. Nevertheless, it is an improvement. The headteacher offers a variation to better explain what the school seeks.
Initial designs are dismissed by the school as not meeting the brief. A new architect is brought in to redesign the plans. The new architect offers a critique of the plans in the light of the brief, and invites the headteacher and governors to visit the site of a current school building project in Kings Lynn. The architect meets with the pupil design champions to consider their views.
Headteacher and Governors present the children’s ideas with our brief to Chris Hey from Children’s services, Chriss Sturman our project manager from NPS and our architect Stephen Briggs.
The school becomes involved with a pilot project run by CABE (The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) led by Headteacher to involve the children in the new building project. Children were given homework projects to design classrooms, choose colour schemes and input ideas for outside learning. This has proved to be very popular. We have also now established “design champions” to become involved in further aspects of the project.
Consultation meetings on “21st Century Learning” at BVS are held involving children at school, parents, teachers and many members of the Aylsham community.
From these meetings a brief to include the aspirations of everyone involved is drawn up. The main themes are for independent learning, outside learning / at risk curriculum and extended schools learning for the community and families beyond the normal school day.
Head and Governors attend two day training event at Barnham Broom led by Norfolk Children’s Services. To consider learning in the 21st Century and how this will impact on rebuild.
School receives final confirmation that it will be receiving £3,000,000 from the Primary Capital Programme to spend on a major refurbishment.
Head Teacher: Mr John Starling
Hungate Street, Aylsham, Norwich, Norfolk, NR11 6JZ
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