Wesley School
Designing a new space
Wesley Primary School in New Zealand is planning a brand new school building. We are working with the leadership team to help the school to identify what activities are working well in their current environment. They will then be able to visualise how these activities may need to adapt to a larger more collaborative space in the new ILE build. They will be able to visualize these activities becoming a reality in the new learning zones in the within the new build.
Our story
Read our blog posts following the Planning Learning Spaces in Practice framework progress with Wesley School in New Zealand
Visit to Auckland
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
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
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
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
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...