Oranga School | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

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,...

Moving into the new learning space

by Bhavini Pandya | 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...

Developing the building design

by Bhavini Pandya | 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...

Defining a learning zone

by Bhavini Pandya | May 14, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand schools, Oranga School, Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

Oranga School is located in the small residential suburb of Oranga, Auckland, New Zealand. The school sits in the shadow of the extinct volcano Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill) and is nine kilometres to the southeast of the city centre. It has a current roll of 360...