Planning Learning Spaces in Practice
Planning Learning Spaces
For schools that want to improve their learning environments, but need support with the process of change, help is at hand from the team behind the best-selling book Planning Learning Spaces
Terry White
Project Co-Director, Co-Author of PLS and Chairman of a4le
Bhavini Pandya
Project Co-Director and Gratnells Learning Rooms Leader
Our project approach
The Planning Learning Spaces in Practice Design Framework helps schools to translate their educational vision into learning space design principles. Schools are guided through a reflective process, building the link between curriculum and design through a structured framework. We work with lead staff and other appropriate stakeholders through a series of workshops, which can be delivered online or in person.
The PLS Team has supported staff at Trumpington Park Primary School to redesign their current Year 4 space. Hear from both the teachers to find out their thoughts on the PLS Design Framework and the impact the newly designed space has had on their learners.
Target audience
The process builds consensus throughout the teaching staff and the wider school community to support sustained change, empowering schools to be creators of a new, ongoing relationship between pedagogy and space.
The project is ideal for schools wanting to refurbish existing learning environments or design new spaces that actively support their learning goals.
Our team
Regional implementation team may vary depending on project and region
Professor Peter Barrett
Author of 'The Clever Classroom Report', UK project research and evaluation.
Sandra Jenkins MNZM
Research and Development and New Zealand Lead Project Facilitator
Doug Crutch
New Zealand Project Co-ordinator
We would be delighted to help your school with our Planning Learning Spaces in practice process. If you contact us first we can discuss the best approach that would suit your school and give you a cost depending on the level of service that would suit you best.
Wesley Primary School, NZ
We are pleased to have Wesley Primary School in New Zealand be part of the PLS in Practice journey, and this week we will hear directly from the staff about their thoughts on the PLS in Practice process and what it has enabled them to do so far. Lou (Principal): As a...
Week 23
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
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
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...
Week 20
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
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
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
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
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...
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