Co-design Project - Our new space for learning!

We're creating a new space for learning. We hope that it will reinforce and extend our school community’s understanding of new educational futures- through accessing learner voice.

We've had a fantastic chance to rethink what is needed and wanted from education and schools.

Project Aims:

• The design process – to involve the whole school and explore new ways to communicate, combine ideas, make decisions, and promote participation and learner voice.

• Learning space design for our educational future – to develop a new space for learning and teaching which reinforces and extends the school community’s collective understanding of new educational futures, and facilitates the pedagogies and approaches to teaching and learning which might underpin these visions.

• New learning relationships – offers opportunities to promote different learning relationships between teachers and pupils and also to support learning with peers (across ages), parents and siblings, the local community, and with external experts. Teachers and students working as equal design partners will provide opportunities to research, problem solve, develop ideas and make decisions as a team.

A group of students have driven the project collaboratively with a member of staff. We've visited Large BSF projects, worked with Futurelab, and practised our negotiating skills and learned a fair deal about designing, budgets and how to order furniture!

... Building work has just started, we'll be posting some updates on here over the summer to show students, parents, staff, and anyone else interested how the work (their hard work) is going on. Watch this space...

Here are the latest pictures