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As multi-sector architects, we are constantly collaborating across our practice areas. This innate collaborative spirit translates to a transparent working relationship with clients, consultants and partners alike. It also means we can leverage deep, relevant expertise at a moment’s notice, bringing to bear a wealth of knowledge to your projects.
By prioritising the social and emotional wellbeing of students, academic performance and social behaviours improve. To that end, research has established that student engagement and learning outcomes are directly influenced by aspects of the built environment, illustrating the significant role that school spaces and facilities have on social and emotional wellbeing. These insights are seamlessly integrated into our collaborative design process.
HKS is a multi-national firm with deep subject-matter expertise across multiple practice areas. Our staff is constantly exposed to the latest thinking across the entire spectrum of developments in the built environment. For you, this means the opportunity to bring global knowledge, teamed with local experts fully engaged in creating successful educational places, to discover what the truly innovative learning environment looks like.
We seek to create healthy, safe, and inclusive learning environments but recognise that different learners experience their school buildings in unique ways. By eliminating barriers, championing critical thinking, ensuring representation, and engaging with students authentically.
We approach every project without a pre-conceived solution, seeking to uncover the right answer to each unique situation. To deliver solutions that go beyond the status quo and provide equal access to opportunity, we must be humble enough to know we don’t have all the answers. Our approach builds trust in the process, buy-in from stakeholders and uncovers creative, unimagined ways to deliver inspirational facilities that cultivate a sense of discovery and learning for your learners.
At HKS we seek to design spaces that are both engaging and high-performing, expressive of academic goals, adaptable to changing needs over time, and responsible to natural resources. Our approach is based upon thoroughly understanding a client’s aspirations and needs, and sensitively responding to the unique environmental, social and operational characteristics of each project. We believe that the most successful projects are those in which there is an integrated project team that promotes collaboration and shared ownership in the pursuit of such an approach. We inherently integrate wellbeing and safeguarding within our education design response. HKS’ holistic, integrated design process is based on research and user collaboration, beginning with a deep-dive alignment to include all stakeholders for consistent success. We have not only built some of the most exciting and transformational educational facilities across the globe, but also worked as advisors to some of the country’s most forward-thinking local authorities and schools.
new build
Ada Lovelace Church of England High School
Kings School and West Blatchington Primary School
Silverstone University Technical College
New build and refurbishment
Whitefriars Community School
retrofit
Castle Academy and Hardingstone SEND Special Resource Provisions
New build
Archbishop Sentamu Academy
new build and refurbishment
Malet Lambert School
Northfleet Technology College
Additional Projects:
Little Reddings Primary School
Croxley Danes School
Newhaven University Technical College
Canary Wharf College, East Ferry
extenstion and refurbishment
Chisenhale Primary School
Priestmead Primary School
Salvatorian College
Andrew Marvell Business and Enterprise College
Aylward Primary School
Canary Wharf College, Glenworth
Cedars Manor School
Nanaksar Primary School
SA1 Masterplan for University of Wales Trinity St David
masterplan
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School
Prince William School Sports Block
Northampton International Academy
refurbishment
Architecture not only reflects our time and culture but also shapes it. At its best, great architecture inspires new ideas and ways of life. We collaborate with various clients, including public and private education providers, multi-disciplinary consultants, contractors, and investors. Our integrated engagement delivers lasting value while conserving natural resources and minimising environmental impact. The London teams’ expertise, combined with international award-winning research, informs design decisions that reflect community values, optimise operations, and provide a safe, functional, and sustainable sense of place. Our inspiring portfolio brings a vast range of projects; each user-centred environment incorporates the most advanced technology available, offering the flexibility to accommodate future advancements while reducing stress, promoting inclusivity, learning and wellbeing, whilst increasing learner and staff efficiency.
When we approach a new project, we assess the whole site to ensure that any intervention which is made is in keeping and not imposing on other aspects or facilities and does not impact any future site aims and strategies. We offer a full masterplanning service in addition to the wider site appreciation, which can assist schools, trusts, and estate managers in planning the aspirations for education facilities in the short term and the long term. Understanding how the transition will take place and looking at key moves can unlock opportunities throughout the estate. Our education team is experienced in looking at school and college estates in this context. Through years of experience and working closely with education clients, we understand the concerns and opportunities of education estates. We realise project aims and aspirations through a thorough briefing and engagement process and work with the estate and stakeholders to achieve these goals and those beyond them.
Interior design significantly impacts school students’ learning environment, influencing their curiosity, discovery, and memory. Well-designed spaces ignite curiosity by stimulating senses and encouraging exploration, fostering an environment where students engage with surroundings and explore new ideas. Intelligently designed spaces enhance memory retention through elements facilitating learning and recall, like visual cues and organised layouts.
The HKS education team can assist clients in building their brief and developing it at the very outset of a project. This may include site appraisals, a schedule of accommodation compilation, and discussions around the project’s desired outcomes. The strategic briefing process enables a clear understanding to the client as to what their project is or could be and enables them to progress to the next stage of appointing further consultants to undertake a feasibility study. The key to this process is stakeholder and client engagement, as well as site visits, to live and breathe the spaces to truly understand and absorb the needs, challenges, and opportunities of a project and embed this within the strategic brief. This is a crucial stage of the project, as it’s the foundations on which the feasibility study and design are developed.
At HKS, we have a passion for integral sustainability, which is as much a part of the project as the walls of a building. Sustainable design is at the core of our principles, and has many contributing facets, including orientation, shading, materiality, form, renewables, passive design measures as well as a plethora of mechanical, electrical and water management solutions. Sustainability and high performance are embodied within the HKS culture. Our education team has a passion for sustainability as part of the design, with sustainability experts and certified Passivhaus designers within our team who have experience designing to Net Zero Carbon and enhancing occupant health and wellbeing. We also have a dedicated studio called HKS DesignGreen, which is comprised of LEED and WELL Building Accredited Professionals that assist and guide our design staff in complex matters such as Life Cycle Assessment.
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HKS are experienced in assisting clients, including schools and trusts, with the very early stages of the project, including brief writing and feasibility studies. A feasibility study is a comprehensive analysis of a prospective project and brief, assessing various factors that could affect and assist the project’s success including design, the site, capacity numbers, operations, planning risks and desired pedagogical strategies. Eventually outlining the viability of a project to aid the decision makers in whether they wish to progress or not. We often work alongside other consultants, including QSs, for budget input. Our architectural feasibility studies involve substantial research into the site, the surrounding area, local planning policy and concerns, as well as the operation and aspirations of the education facility at the focus of the study. Core to the process is close client and end-user engagement, ensuring their experiences and views flood the study. We have undertaken a number of feasibility studies directly for schools/trusts as well as the DfE.
Our knowledgeable and understanding architects adapt our design process to ensure that at the early briefing stage, all the varying needs of the school are incorporated and provided within the brief and proposals. We believe client engagement sessions are key to our design and briefing process. Here, we speak with the school leadership, staff and therapists to fully understand and appreciate the unique needs of a school and its pupils, and discuss how the design can respond best to these needs, to provide the optimum spaces and adjacencies and provide the greatest benefit to pupils and staff. Through these sessions, our SEND and AP specialists can develop a brief that suits the unique needs of each SEND/AP school. From discussing specialist spaces to aiding the client and education provider in formulating a considered Schedule of Accommodation in line with Building Bulletin 104, we ensure that all care, therapy and learning needs are provided according to the bespoke need. We believe listening and understanding are key to responding with successful and innovative designs to provide the best SEND/AP schools.
Some projects can benefit from Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), which bring advantages when used in the right situations, such as: • Enhanced efficiency and speed • Improved quality control • Sustainability • Reduced site disruption. • Improved health and safety on building sites Our education team has a wide experience and knowledge of MMC and the various benefits they can bring to projects.
Responsible Retrofit is where a refurbishment also looks ahead to future changes, such as the climate when reusing a building, but also when looking to protect the state of the existing building, particularly with heritage examples. Best practice retrofit takes a whole building approach, where the consequence of every retrofit measure is fully understood, and the building is considered as a whole.
Refurbishment offers a great opportunity to spark new life into an existing building and to restore and improve the spaces within it. Part of the current sustainability agenda, retaining existing structure and fabric is essential to reducing our carbon footprint, and alongside useability, practicalities, budget and compliance with the brief are key considerations at the early design stages. Our Refurbishment experience also includes works on historical buildings.
New build facilities offer the opportunity to start from scratch, with visions, values inspirations, and aspirations including pedagogies and sustainability within the overall holistic design of the buildings, campus and masterplan. Our approach to new build projects is always to listen and fully understand before starting to ensure the design is bespoke and nurtured to each project and the individual requirements, site, and campus.
Faith schools play a significant role in our education portfolio, representing diverse traditions from multiple faiths. At HKS, our architects have the expertise to ensure faith-based facilities are seamlessly integrated into the overall layout and accommodation schedule, optimising flow and usability. Our education team relish the challenge of incorporating faith elements into our designs, including core community spaces, open chapels, wudu, prayer and worship spaces, and open and translucent space definers. Each school is uniquely designed to reflect the ethos of their respective faiths, with design elements ensuring it is at the heart of the school operations and views. By weaving faith into the very fabric of the school's design, we ensure that these institutions not only educate but also nurture the values and beliefs that are integral to the communities they serve.
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Please feel free to email or call our education lead, Rachel, for a no-fee review of your project. Rachel is our Regional Practice Director for Education at HKS London. With two decades of experience in the education sector, she engages with schools, trusts, and local authorities alongside delivery partners and contractors. Her understanding of current and developing educational needs drives her passion for designing inspirational learning environments, innovative new buildings, and estate-wide strategies. Rachel and her team have experience on projects through all RIBA work stages from conception to post-completion, encompassing strategic briefing, feasibility studies, construction plans, and post-occupancy evaluations.
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Archbishop Sentamu Academy is a new build secondary school in Yorkshire, with design innovations resulting in no traditional corridors but with zones around atria creating flexible general teaching spaces in a deep plan deliberately to allow maximum opportunity for future change. This arrangement creates opportunities for varied teaching styles and group working providing rooms that are flexible. The school spaces also include those for vocational teaching for subjects such as Car Mechanics and specialist sport facilities. The architecture of the building sores to the sky at its pinnacle, evoking the religious focus of this 5 storey Church of England secondary school. The atria behind the pinnacle are the focal points of the school community, where everyone can gather and host multiple types of events, from assemblies, to exhibitions, careers fairs as well operating as the dining areas.
Stunning new build secondary school in Yorkshire
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New build 1200 place secondary school located on London Greenbelt land with historic features and many trees; the site posed challenging topographical constraints, including a level change of 17m, neighbouring easements, and existing utilities which the final design proposal addressed alongside having outstanding community facilities and street and public realm presence at the school entrance. Following close consultation with the school, the proposals developed key education adjacencies over the 2 floors around specialist HUB zones, including communal learning spaces within the circulation, reducing the need for traditional corridors. All learning environments were flooded with natural daylight, with most enjoying views over the greenbelt land.
New build secondary school in London greenbelt
HKS was commissioned to refurbish a largely original 1930s school building and create a new-build two-storey extension, with a stand-alone 4 court sports centre and associated external playing fields. A key feature was the transformation of an external courtyard into the heart of the school, the LRC, with ETFE pillows above flooding the space with natural daylight. Completed over a phased construction programme and working around the partial occupation of the school, this project involved the retention and restoration of the original architectural features of the existing school and the creation of a new modern transformational teaching environment to provide new ICT, drama and art facilities. The new buildings incorporate large windows and expanses of translucent cladding to maximise daylight and natural ventilation, and a crisp white brick and textured concrete cladding module as a response to the existing Neo-Georgian stonework and construction techniques.
Secondary school refurbishment and extension
Little Reddings Primary School is a new building project designed to achieve net zero carbon in operation with the aim of also reducing the embodied carbon alongside. A 2-form entry primary school, the proposals responded to a complex site comprising of a sewer, stream, woodland and close neighbouring residential homes. The design addressed all of these constraints whilst also enabling enhanced community use and for the school to continue to operate on the site with no temporary accommodation during the construction phase. The spaces respond directly to the school’s education brief, in particular to their forest school, which takes place in the woodland on site; it was important for the SEND areas to be closely located to this amenity, and the location of the building enabled this whilst also facilitating the woodland to shelter the building from passive solar gain. The scheme was developed during the fast-track DfE process, which took the design from Stage 2 to Stage 4 in approximately 20 design weeks.
New build net zero carbon primary school
The striking UTC building sits within a dedicated landscaped track-side site to the north of the National Pit Straight and was one of the first developments to be realised from the approved Silverstone Circuit Masterplan. Silverstone UTC offers courses in both Technical Events Management and High Performance Engineering, taking advantage of its geographic location not only at the circuit but in the heart of England’s ‘Motorsport Valley’. The scheme was designed to minimise the acoustic impact of the adjacent racing track and the ‘engine boom’ of the cars hitting Copse corner, which led to the position of the building and the location of the teaching spaces on the opposite side.
New build UTC on the trackside at Silverstone Race Circuit
Kings School and West Blatchington Primary School (WBPS) share the former WBPS site, which is immediately adjacent to the South Downs National Park. Both school buildings are positioned to address each other as well as the public entrance. Inspiring views over the park were an integral part of the design process for both schools. WBPS was designed around maximising indoor-outdoor play and over two storeys to minimise travel times for pupils. King’s School has been designed to minimise the building’s impact on views from the national park whilst serving as a landmark building for the trust. Extensive glazing around the entrance showcases library and art teaching spaces whilst detailing to the brick elevation announces the school’s Christian ethos.
New build schools on the boundary of a National Park
The first ‘all-through’ school in Harrow, Whitefriars Community School retains the previous primary school Listed Edwardian building and integrated it into a campus plan with an enveloping new build block for the remainder of the accommodation. The scheme includes a children’s centre with public access. This and other community facilities were a key focus of the school’s ethos, and the new Whitefriars Community School has been developed to respond to the specific pedagogical approach of the brief. The new block envelopes the ‘Green Heart’ in the centre of the site, providing a play oasis for the pupils, which is easily supervised by the staff.
New build and refurbishment all-through school
Development of a new Catholic college on an existing secondary school site, with a capacity for 900 students and within a residential area of Harrow. The vision for Salvatorian College is for the school to meet its pupils’ needs with a broad and balanced curriculum which is both flexible and inspiring. The site presented many challenges being in a tight urban context, with retained retirement accommodation down the centre. The complex phased approach enabled the school to partially remain on-site during construction while the whole school was rebuilt.
New build secondary school on a tight site
East Midlands Academy Trust, a repeat client of HKS, approached us to convert some mainstream classrooms and associated spaces into two specialist Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) dedicated SEND SRPs. The first at Castle Academy in Northampton for Key Stage 1 pupils included an adapted classroom and specialist Sensory Room, as well as converted sanitary facilities, storage, staff office and enhanced play space. Hardingstone Academy SRP was designed specifically for Key Stage 2 pupils and involved the conversation of two classrooms and some circulation into a specialist classroom, group spaces, hygiene room, specialist sensory room, a calm space, and a dedicated external play area. These projects were fast-tracked through design and construction within 6 months.
Converted SEND suites in Northampton
A new-build secondary school for 1,330 11-19 year olds. The scheme is located on a sensitive site partially classed as Metropolitan Open Land, with a ‘green corridor’ running along the eastern boundary with a major road that creates a significant noise impact, demanded creative problem-solving. Named after the 19th-century mathematician and first “computer programmer” Ada Lovelace, the school has a strong focus on science and technology and is proud of its name-sake as a role model for women in STEM. The design of the building celebrates the links with Ada Lovelace through the design of the fenestration and interior strategy, using a punch card and the modern bar code concept. While successfully responding to the pedagogical requirements of the technical curriculum, the building celebrates the links with Ada Lovelace through the design of the fenestration and interior strategy, using a punch card and the modern bar code concept.
Large complex new build secondary school
A flexible, multi-use building that fully supports new strategies for secondary learning and teaching and the drive to embed ICT throughout the curriculum. Northfleet Technology College embraces the personalised learning agenda and provides a range of opportunities for extended learning. Open-plan Homebases accommodate the majority of general teaching and learning, whilst specialist technology areas are housed in the public-facing area of the building and visibly demonstrate the college’s technical specialism. Carbon emissions were reduced by incorporating high levels of insulation and air tightness, as well as biomass boilers providing heating, with solar collectors to support the hot water demand and rainwater harvesting to be used for flushing WCs and urinals.
New build secondary with innovative pedagogies
Newhaven UTC was a responsible retrofit of two listed buildings with a new build extension located within the historic setting on the Railway Quays site into a vocational teaching and training facility for Marine Engineering. The new facility will develop engineers for the future who will have specialist skills and the environmental awareness needed to support the increasing role of renewable and marine technologies such as wind farms and tidal energy generators. The design reused as many of the existing elements as possible, including an internal crane, whilst new interventions such as the timber SIPS enabled us to protect the historic listed façade by creating a skin within existing walls. The sympathetic extension links the two buildings and provides additional floor area at the existing roof level.
Responsible retrofit of a listed building into a UTC
Canary Wharf College, East Ferry, is the first of two schools HKS has designed for the trust on the Isle of Dogs in London. A 2-form entry primary school, East Ferry incorporates a historic chapel into the design featuring a cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure, which is exposed throughout the school, bringing warmth, calmness and nature. Efficient design maximises the school’s accommodation and exceeds the number of teaching spaces required by the brief, allowing dedicated art, technology, and ICT facilities to be provided. The exterior of the new building element features brickwork details that embrace the Canary Wharf College’s skyline logo and incorporate some playfulness into the elevation.
New build CLT primary school on the Isle of Dogs
HKS was asked to design a corner extension at Chisenhale Primary School to provide additional learning space on the tight school site. This new accommodation comprises a reception, administration and staff room, together with a staff leadership office and individual interview rooms. A new lift ensures full accessibility to each level. The project also comprises rationalising internal areas for improved classroom facilities and ICT provision for 30 pupils.
Victorian School Extension and Refurbishment
Priestmead Primary School and Nursery, located in the culturally diverse area of Kenton, in London, on a 31,576 sqm site with designated open land, is a new 878 place vibrant and multicultural primary school and includes 26 full-time equivalent (FTE) nursery places and an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) unit with 12 pupil capacity. These pupils spend much of their time in the unit having specialist teaching, but they also integrate into the mainstream school whenever possible, therefore the design promotes this connection and integration. The design brief was to generate an exciting and challenging atmosphere, creating a community that enables children to develop self-knowledge and self-esteem, and maximise the use of technology to support learning in all areas of school life. Careful consideration of a variety of building forms, heights and arrangements has led to a proposed design that fully supports the School’s vision and maximises external play space and learning areas.
New build primary school which maximises external space
This environmentally and financially sustainable college was designed to deliver long-term economies and nurture positive student attitudes toward sustainability. The structure is a focal point — a beacon — with its height articulating desire and ambition. Its form is expressed in a visual language of stacked, linear blocks that twist like a stack of books. Pupils have responded tremendously to the new building in their attitudes towards learning and respect for the new facilities. Visitors have commented on the college’s calm and purposeful learning climate. HKS’ proposal highlights an opportunity to build on open spaces close to the road whilst affording a stronger link to the existing community farm. This also means that construction can be completed in a single phase using available funding for the most significant long-term effect.
Creating a Culture of Lifelong Learning
Aylward Primary School facilitated the school’s expansion from two to three forms of entry and enables the school to be supplemented by the new teaching unit for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One key concern during design was to ensure that the new building did not “compete” with its setting, but instead responded sympathetically to the extensive natural habitat on the school site. Careful consideration was given to a variety of site options and buildings to ensure that the proposed design created an open and natural feel to the school and its grounds, all whilst ensuring good security and site circulation. The design also retained and highlighted a large cedar tree that is central to the school’s identity.
New build school features specialist SEND unit
HKS was tasked with developing extremely efficient floor plans and adjacencies that could cater to a school’s needs within a reduced footprint. Through careful analysis of the school’s requirements, efficiencies were developed that allowed the design to exceed the number of teaching spaces originally assumed feasible and ultimately set the benchmark for future school developments on London’s constrained urban sites. Contrasting bricks create a silhouette of the surrounding London skyline, further helping to anchor the school in its neighbourhoods while creating a strong visual identity that has been adopted as the school’s logo. This project's branding and design ethos is being expanded to two other schools in the city.
Celebrating a love for learning on a tight urban site
HKS was commissioned to develop a proposal to design and construct a new build school on the existing school site whilst the school was in operation. Located on a challenging, tight site requiring complex demolition and construction phasing, Cedars Manor Primary School provides much-needed modern facilities to a fast-growing student population. The project involved careful and detailed stakeholder engagement to ensure minimal disruption to a partner Children’s Centre on the school site, while building strong new relationships and strengthening existing relationships around the shared facilities.
Modern Facilities for a Growing School Population
This RIBA Stage 3 design proposal provided the trust with an all-through school offering of a Sikh faith primary school in west London, located on the adjacent playing fields to the secondary school Guru Nanak Sikh Academy in Hayes, London, Borough of Hillingdon. The site proposal sought to mitigate the loss of a playing field with a three-storey building, reducing the footprint whilst also providing an efficient parent drop off/parking area to reduce the impact of the school on the already busy local highways. The design focused on faith and community at its centre, with community use as an integral component, ensuring the school is providing for and at the heart of the local community. The learning spaces were designed for flexible learning, with the library at the heart of the plan alongside easy access to the halls and external learning and play environments.
A Community-centred Sikh Faith School
HKS has worked with the East Midlands Academy Trust for several years at Northampton International Academy (NIA) on small and effective interventions to ensure the efficiency of their building is aligned with their school operation and pedagogies. The all-through school provides education for more than 2,000 pupils aged 4-18 years on an extremely compact site in the centre of Northampton. HKS’ design features a new feature atrium stair to ease pupil congestion, adaptations to the art gallery to incorporate some dedicated staff space and a redesign of the Design Technology space to improve the acoustics and learning environments. We also designed the fitout to four large shell spaces to expand pupil wellbeing and curriculum offerings through a dedicated life skills space, a mental health hub with consultation rooms, a sixth form study area and a business enterprise zone. We continue to work with the Trust and school on further improvements.
Strategic interventions for improved efficiency and student wellbeing
HKS has worked closely with the East Midlands Academy Trust and Prince William School for several years, assessing the school estate to increase its efficiency and ability to deliver exceptional education. This commenced with a site appraisal feasibility study, which led to some enabling refurbishment projects including food technology, theatre and communal facilities, cumulating in a new sports building. The new building provides a new enhanced and robust secure line entry and obvious gateway into the school, with improved bus and car drop off, alongside outstanding sports facilities. These include a fully equipped dance studio, a 4-court Sport England Sports Hall and an outdoor social and play plaza. These spaces enhance the school’s current provision and expand wellbeing areas. The first floor of the building provides further associated learning spaces including classrooms and group rooms for more focused study.
Realising the Masterplan and a New School Gateway
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School is a 236-pupil, two-storey new build situated in Harrow, London. The site presented HKS with unique challenges, including a railway on one side, a canal feeder channel posing a flood risk, a residential neighbourhood and a heritage conservation area. The design proposal navigated these complexities, including phasing and access arrangements around the existing school to remain operational during construction. The school's request to express its Catholic ethos and goals to enhance learning and foster a sense of community added another concept layer to the design. The strategic positioning of rooms and the creation of a new outdoor space within the site's constraints aim to improve the learning environment. The design prioritises strong views and natural daylighting, ensuring fresh air and comfort for students, staff, and visitors. Notably, the building's design brings the school's Catholic ethos to life, replacing existing end-of-life facilities with modern ones that reflect the school's values.
London school design harkens to its Catholic foundation
Secured via an OJEU competition and developed in collaboration with the University of Wales Trinity St David, this masterplan defines a new postcode district. It proposes some 300,000 square meters of truly diverse mixed-use opportunities including retail, higher education, learning, health, commercial, office, hotel, food & beverage uses interwoven with a varied range of mixed mode residential typologies including student living, in a new vibrant city district located on Swansea dockside.
Higher education masterplan
A repeat client, East Midlands Academy Trust approached HKS to convert mainstream classrooms and associated spaces into a specialist autism spectrum disorder (ASD) dedicated SEND SRP. Hardingstone Academy SRP was designed specifically for Key Stage 2 pupils and involved the conversion of two classrooms and circulation space into a specialist classroom, group spaces, a specialist sensory room, a calm space, a hygiene room and a dedicated external play area. The project was fast-tracked: designed and constructed within six months.
Incorporating SEND Into a Mainstream Setting
Thames Valley University is one of the largest providers of nursing and midwifery training in the UK. Situated on a campus that also provides students and key workers with accommodations, this 14-storey facility in Brentford provides state-of-the-art simulation teaching wards, a learning resource centre, café and refectory dining, a gymnasium and a lecture theatre. There is also an extensive provision for new open-plan workplaces and a suite of teaching rooms.
Healthcare Teaching Facility Features Simulation Spaces
