Building Schools for the Future - NSFG

[BeanEgg]

Plasterboard windows? You have no windows if thats the case.
Also Dan I dont think its a waste, schools need to be refurbished/built across the country. I know my parents would rather see a new school be built with their tax money than paying tax for fuel, cars, roads etc and have shoddy roads. Also, I think the open plan thing is so that people simple cant have massive, loud class discussions. It should help improve the behavious or children when they get to secondary schools as they will soon start to learn that they cant just shout out etc.

I clearly meant plasterboard walls and the windows.
The common sense please.. /sarcasm

[Alkaz]

I didnt know what you meant, all walls have plasterboard on them so I didnt know where you were coming from. Your post made no sense.
Also inseriousity, 90% of the furniture in them pictures isnt actually there. Its just artists impressions.

[BeanEgg]

I didnt know what you meant, all walls have plasterboard on them so I didnt know where you were coming from. Your post made no sense.
Also inseriousity, 90% of the furniture in them pictures isnt actually there. Its just artists impressions.

Plasterboard is like a wooden thing, but it's not it's 'plaster'.
Most houses have bricks with an extra layer of cement.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Plasterboard windows? You have no windows if thats the case.
Also Dan I dont think its a waste, schools need to be refurbished/built across the country. I know my parents would rather see a new school be built with their tax money than paying tax for fuel, cars, roads etc and have shoddy roads. Also, I think the open plan thing is so that people simple cant have massive, loud class discussions. It should help improve the behavious or children when they get to secondary schools as they will soon start to learn that they cant just shout out etc.

I was thinking this, this country does make a lot of money and yes, if we spent that money well we could have excellent buildings built that cost an arm and a leg. However when we have other schools falling apart at the seems, grades falling, roads falling apart, areas resembling slums, and a massive deficit as a country, these sort of buildings are a joke, not to mention the fact that it will look terrible in around a decade (guranteed).

On the point of loud class discussions, yes and that will then in turn distrupt other classrooms who are not having loud discussions and are trying to get on with their work. Children know they should not be shouting and they don't need the removal of doors to show that. It may seem like some trendy idea thought up by some European artist somewhere in Paris but it just will not work.

Is it just me who likes the traditional buildings then? I don't like those seats!!
My old school is merging with another (ironically, the one right next door to my college). Whether that's a good idea remains to be seen though. The traffic on that road is going to be immense (it's one road with a 'bad behaviour' school, college, secondary school)!

We are becoming like the rest of the world, nothing is built with care anymore. The buildings are bland, poorly built and date very easily aswell as the fact they have no character.

[Seatherny]

Erm 4 classrooms with no doors? Wont it be hard to teach because of all the noise?

[Alkaz]

Dan I did say somewere that it was some American mans idea. My school was built in the 20's so is quiet deco and they have kept it inkeeping with that and used matching bricks but added elements of moderness to it. How ever, the school down the road from mine looks like it has been designed by Normon Foster (he designed the gherkin, mayors building, mellenium bridge (the one that wobbled)), that wont date well but generally I think move will.

And ye Saurav, there is a massive learning area which used to be across the area of 8 classrooms but now the schools been doubled in size, there are only half as many classes in that same area. So far its been really good and extremely quiet and there are areas with walls for people to go and have discussions which you can barely hear so its all good really