Hard economic times have an impact on schools, usually, but not inevitably, for the worse. A recent conference on the links between learning and the spaces in which it occurs, illustrated innovative responses to keeping our school estate in working order, to replacing buildings no longer fit-for-purpose, but also to thinking imaginatively about costs.
John Fyffe of Perth and Kinross Council offered perhaps the most systematically innovative approach. New schools built in Perth, Crieff, Aberfeldy and Kinross have all been designed first for learning, second with the active input of young people as well as parents and teachers to the design process, and finally as community resources.
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