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Week 23

Jul 30, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Oranga School, Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

This week we are back at Oranga School for the Official Opening of their two new collaborative learning spaces, Block 2 and 3. Such an important event for a school needs an equally important visitor to cut the ribbon and who better than New Zealand’s Prime Minister,...

Week 22

Jul 23, 2021 | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice, Trumpington Park Primary School, UK schools

Re-designing a learning space is not something that is left to just school leaders and designers. The students must be involved in order to feel part of the process. Our PLS Design Framework relies on the thoughts of the students at different stages so that we can...

Week 21

Jul 16, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Grey Lynn School, Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

This week we are back in Grey Lynn School to catch up with the year 1 and 2s to see how they are defining learning activities within their use of space. Transitioning into the use of more collaborative learning environments is a learning journey for students and all...

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Week 20

Jul 9, 2021 | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice, Trumpington Park Primary School, UK schools

This week I went back to Trumpington Park Primary School to find out from the staff what they thought about the PLS Design Framework and the impact it has had on their teaching and the student’s learning. Now that the full class has moved into the space, both...

Week 19

Jul 2, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Grey Lynn School, Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

I last updated you about Grey Lynn School in week 11, where we saw the ‘Activity Poster’ project come together. The posters have now made their way into the ‘Learning Hubs’ where both teachers and children have had a chance to use them to support their daily...

Week 18

Jun 25, 2021 | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice, Trumpington Park Primary School, UK schools

This week I went back to Trumpington Park Primary School to observe the full class of year 4 students in their new learning space. You may remember back to my earlier blog posts; the year 4 students were first using the new room in small groups before moving the full...

Week 17

Jun 18, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Oranga School, Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

The students in Year 3 and 4 at Oranga School have now moved into their newly refurbished two Hub modern learning environment. It was previously a standard series of 6 single cell classrooms. An early morning blessing was held the week before the school moved in, and...

Week 16

Jun 11, 2021 | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice, Trumpington Park Primary School, UK schools

Making a reality of our vision for learning at Trumpington Park Primary School When staff at Trumpington Park Primary School were taken through the PLS Design Framework, they identified several key areas that they wanted to develop as their next practice within their...

Week 15

May 26, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Oranga School, Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

This week’s post is back to Oranga School in central Auckland, where we look a little closer at the two major building initiatives under development on the school site, and some of the support Planning Learning Spaces was able to offer Bridget Lummis, the newly...

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