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Simple Solutions for Safer Schools

Southwark

Project Details

Less than £20,000

Practice

Alma-nac Collaborative Architecture

11 Waterloo Court , 10 Theed Street , London , SE1 8ST

Simple Solutions for Safer Schools is a collection of ideas for creating COVID 19 safe schools in an inclusive and engaging way. It is based upon government guidelines and conversations with teachers, building upon the great work that they are already doing. The guide concludes by looking ahead and reflecting on the positive discoveries that could shape schools of the future. This research builds upon an ongoing relationship with many of the collaborating schools. Over the last 18 months alma-nac has been working with a group of schools from Lambeth and Southwark to recycle the material from the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Colour Palace Pavilion and create a series of modular planters. The Dulwich Picture Gallery Planters project helped to initiate cross-school and community collaboration establishing a strong local network, while the self-build initiative behind the project enabled the schools and their students to re-imagine their own environment and enact positive change themselves. Simple Solutions for Safer Schools guide harnesses the collective experience of a network of schools to gather and share ideas that can assist all schools in adapting their environment. It is focused on simple, low cost, and easy to implement solutions that empower both teachers and students. We understand that each school will have very different physical environments, resources, facilities, and finances available to them and so we have included a range of different manageable interventions. This document is largely aimed at primary schools, although some ideas will be relevant to secondary schools as well.