Creating a special classroom

Description

The magazine series helping to improve the school environment.The All Change team transform a room used by autistic children at Sherbourne Fields Special School in Coventry. In September 2005 Sherbourne Special School is going to have a new cohort of year 7 autistic children and they want to prepare a special room for them to use as a teaching base and to make them feel welcome in the school. Architect Marco da Cruz's design was developed in conjunction with the school to create a new look for the room which includes plenty for the children to play with and enjoy such as mobile sensory units, boxes, origami and a jewellery jack-in-the-box! The programme also features St Winifreds Roman Catholic School in Lewisham, designed in the 1960s with radical large octagonal classrooms and break-out spaces.

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28 min

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Date of Publication

2005

Database

Alexander Street

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