4:43am Sunday 05th September
Tel: 020 8673 7573
A CO-EDUCATIONAL PREP SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN AGED 4-11
Our innovative new building contains three classrooms at ground level and a dining room with catering facilities in the basement below. For the first time, cooked lunches will be available to all pupils and staff and the additional classrooms will free up space for more specialist subject teaching rooms elsewhere in the school.
The new building occupies a space that previously accommodated a portacabin, now no longer required. The basement stretches out underneath the playground beyond the footprint of the ground floor level. In this way, the building fills an awkward, under-utilised corner of the school, without losing any playground space. It was planned around a protected lime tree, which now forms the centrepiece of a small garden area and the roofline slopes up and away from the perimeter walls so that the building has low visual impact from outside the school site. Sustainability was a key priority in the design of the building, which incorporates long-life low-maintenance materials, energy-saving construction and flexibility of use.