Trumpington Park Primary School | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice

Review of new learning space

by Fellowship | 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...

Moving into the new learning space

by Fellowship | 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...

Initial observations

by Fellowship | 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...

Making a reality of the school vision

by Fellowship | 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...

Introducing students to the learning zones

by Fellowship | May 21, 2021 | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice, Trumpington Park Primary School, UK schools

This week I went back to Trumpington Park Primary School, to see how the students and staff were settling into their new learning space. As you may remember from my previous blog posts, this space has been designed with specific learning zones, so it was interesting...

Why are learning zones important?

by Fellowship | May 7, 2021 | Planning Learning Spaces in Practice, Trumpington Park Primary School, UK schools

What are the benefits of having learning zones within a collaborative learning space? • Designated activity areas. • ...