Inspiring examples

 For some years now and within the Ka1 and Ka2 fantastic european projects in my school, I have had the opportunity to visit quite many schools and get inspired by the way they use the space for the benefit of learning. 

I share with you some pics from a school in the north of Belgium. It is a huge concrete building, grey and ugly from the outside and wonderfully warm and learning focused on the inside. I got many ideas from this school, some already implemented in mine..

Please COMMENT. Do you think those ideas could be implemented in your school/high school, etc? Why or why not? If not,, would this inspire you to do something different? Let's use our imagination and share with each other. THANKS

PICS:

1º.- The relaxing igloo. It is a brick-made intimate space placed in the middle of the huge hall, mainly thought for the children with autistic disorder (but useful for all). If the child needs some time of quietness, he/she shows "the card" to the teacher and can go to the igloo to be on his/her own, protected. Inside the igloo there are cushions and there is also a light to show to the others outside that the igloo is occupied. 

2º.- The idea of using the common spaces as learning spaces. The halls in this school are also classrooms.

3º.- The idea of making material to share. In the pic, there are boxes with activities prepared by the parents. You have inside the sheet with the instruction and the materials to do it. We have used it to organize quick experiments, but it could also be arts and crafts, manipulative Maths....This way, if a teacher needs activities to do work in groups, everything is already organized....

Gema López