Our Lady of the Missions Primary School
Working with Architecture & design Scotland (A&DS) we were commissioned to deliver their ’test of change service’ to help the school consider their existing Learning & Teaching spaces and how they might be developed to respond directly to pupil & teacher needs, through a program of incremental change and testing of ideas in situ.
We developed and hosted an initial teacher visioning workshop with 50 teachers and support staff focusing on issues raised through an initial spatial analysis of the school and discussions with the head teacher. The visioning session feedback then formed the basis for a strategic development analysis report addressing the issues raised and educational L&T needs and aspirations. The report outlined a number of potential solutions and design ideas that the school could develop further and outlined a framework with which to implement them.
These initial ideas and solutions were then tested in situ through a 'space hack' where pupils from P3-7 worked together in a hosted interactive workshop to create, explore, develop and build temporary installations using simple materials: cardboard, boxes, rugs, stools, cushions, fabric etc.
The school then developed these ideas further by commissioning Flux Laser & CNC Studio to collaborate with the pupils to translate and then fabricate their designs which were installed in the school to assist in the creation of new Learning & Teaching spaces.
Our work with Our Lady of the Missions Primary School will be showcased in an exhibition held at the Lighthouse in Glasgow from mid June to October 2019 titled ‘The learner Journey: Empowering pupils to shape their schools’ which also features a number of other projects from A&DS’s ‘test of change’ program.