A future-focused learning environment at Queanbeyan East Public School
Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
Reimagining the school as an active learning environment, the new neighbourhoods support the diverse ways of learning in a healthy, sustainable and flexible facility.
At a glance
Reimagining the school as an active learning environment, the new neighbourhoods support the diverse ways of learning in a healthy, sustainable and flexible facility.
The challenge
The campus masterplan and Learning Centre presents a new street address to the community and provides accessible connections across a sloping site to the extended hall, new canteen and covered play areas.
Our response
The new facility for 300 children was conceived as an active learning environment to support the learners and the diverse ways in which they work. The school was arranged as a series of neighbourhoods composed of learning nodes, each with 3-4 homebase classrooms, that are connected to a variety of complementary group learning zones. Spaces are designed to support large group, small group and independent work area.
The centre is provided with highly automated naturally ventilated and cooled systems in addition to mechanical heating and cooling and provides a comfortable and healthy indoor environment while being connected to the outdoors.
The impact
These nooks, niches, technology areas, amphitheatre and focus points, group rooms and maker spaces provide a modern learning environment where students and teachers alike may choose how they wish to work by creating personalised settings in which users can navigate and connect.
The new building is a fantastic space, that functions exceptionally well and has transformed learning at the school.
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