Designed for the Disabled

The building snakes around mature lime trees which surround the site, nestling to the one side of an adjacent large public park. Classrooms lay along the northern quiet, edge of the site, overlooking verdant play spaces. The external envelope of the school steps and curves to create a series of safe and stimulating landscaped teaching gardens. These outside spaces are integral to the teaching practice of the school. It is vital that the children have an accessible external environment, which allows them to breathe fresh air, to hear the wind rustling the trees and to feel the rain. These sensory experiences while taken for granted by many, form a critical part of a pupil’s education.