Aspiring architect Sophie Wilkinson does not have far to walk to get to work experience sessions. The year 13 student is working with architects on a new 70-bed girls’ boarding house at her school, Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire.
She has watched the plans take shape, liaised with architects and builders, learned about the intricacies of planning permission and writes a regular blog about the project’s progress for the school website.
Sophie’s involvement came about after she took a one-year extra-curricular history of architecture course led by Nick Nelson, head of art history at the college.
He arranged for her to talk to architects at Heath Avery, the Cheltenham-based architectural practice responsible for designing the new boarding house, and they gave her the opportunity to attend site visits.
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