Australia and New Zealand schools | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

Visit to Auckland

by Bhavini Pandya | Oct 26, 2022 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Blog, News, Wesley School

The Planning Learning Spaces in Practice Team have traveled to Auckland (NZ) to visit several schools, with whom they have been working on the PLSiP Design Framework. Last Friday, both Bhavini and Terry were warmly welcomed by the staff at Wesley Primary School....

Zoning the space

by Bhavini Pandya | Oct 5, 2022 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Wesley School

Following on from transforming learning activities and behaviours into design principles, came the task of thinking about how the whole learning space would operate. How would the children learn? What spaces would they go into? How can learning zones support the...

Transforming learning behaviours and activities into design principles

by Bhavini Pandya | Oct 5, 2022 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Wesley School

The next part of the PLS in Practice process was for staff to use their previously identified ‘next steps’ and consider what this might look like in their new learning environment. In order to do this, staff had to first describe in words what each of their next...

Identifying strengths and challenges

by Bhavini Pandya | Oct 5, 2022 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Wesley School

Staff at Wesley Primary School spent time considering what strengths they could take forward into their new school build and also how to overcome some of the challenges they were currently facing in their single-cell classrooms. This was all underpinned by the five...

Wesley Primary School embarks on the PLSiP journey

by Bhavini Pandya | Nov 30, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Blog, Planning Learning Spaces in Practice, Wesley School

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...

Official Opening at Oranga School

by Bhavini Pandya | 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,...