PURPOSE
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
All learning takes place in a context and when that context is a school, everything it does must support student learning. However, acknowledging constraints and being prepared to compromise are the true friends of aspiration as implementation is planned.
All learning takes place in a context and when that context is a school, everything it does must support student learning. However, acknowledging constraints and being prepared to compromise are the true friends of aspiration as implementation is planned.
LEARNING
The prime function of any school is to facilitate learning. All planning, strategic, financial and educational rests on a simple proposition: the right decision is the decision that provides the greatest advantage for student learning.
ASPIRATION
Starting a school is about helping young people of all ages find out what they enjoy, what they are good at and what they can aspire to.
The foundations of a school’s culture that makes this possible are laid well before it opens. That’s why getting it right early is so important.
LEARNING
The prime function of any school is to facilitate learning. All planning, strategic, financial and educational rests on a simple proposition: the right decision is the decision that provides the greatest advantage for student learning.
ASPIRATION
Starting a school is about helping young people of all ages find out what they enjoy, what they are good at and what they can aspire to.
The foundations of a school’s culture that makes this possible are laid well before it opens. That’s why getting it right early is so important.
CONSTRAINTS
There will always be constraints in project work: time, budget, space, circumstances. These cannot be allowed to deflect a school from its purpose, but nether can they be ignored. Compromise, informed by experience will be necessary to find the best way forward.
CONSTRAINTS
There will always be constraints in project work: time, budget, space, circumstances. These cannot be allowed to deflect a school from its purpose, but nether can they be ignored. Compromise, informed by experience will be necessary to find the best way forward.
CASE STUDY
growing school, tight site
Consilium Education was engaged by a successful K-12 IB world school operating on a very constrained suburban site in a European city attracting a growing expatriate population.
Our brief was to propose design and operational solutions that would maximise the use of a new plot of land which, though adjacent to the school, was on the other side of a busy road and was awkwardly shaped. It was important that when any new building was complete, the enhanced campus would operate with maximum efficiency and minimum student movement.
A case to establish a self-contained centre for younger children on the new plot was discounted, but having listened to the staff and leadership team it became apparent that the solution which would offer the greatest flexibility was to establish new high school facilities on the new plot, which would also give older students easy access to specialist science, technology, sport and creative subjects activities via a road bridge.
Efficient scheduling would minimise the impact of student movement between different areas, while space no longer needed by the older students was released in existing buildings to allow growth in the primary and early years areas of the school.
