Grange Primary School, Newham
Client: London Borough of Newham
Role: Architecture
Grange School forms part of the wider Brooks Estate regeneration programme, providing essential primary school facilities for the developing area.
Completed in 2005, Grange School includes the full refurbishment of an existing 1970s building and the construction of a new extension providing four new classrooms, library/ ITC suite and necessary ancillary accommodation for the London Borough of Newham.
Part of the regeneration of the nearby Brooks Estate, PRP carried out the feasibility study and design of Grange Primary School. This included the development of the brief in consultation with the school children, parents, staff and the head.
The enlarged facilities conveyed the current single form infants school catering for ages 3 to 7 to a junior school for children up to the age of 11, thus avoiding the upheaval that many parents consider disruptive. A sympathetic treatment of the old and the new and the use throughout of similar themes such as the addition of quiet areas to the existing classrooms, succeed in creating a unified and exciting complex of buildings around well designed external areas including a courtyard. PRP's proposals involved improvements to the external environment which has attracted additional funding due to the positive impact that they will have on the immediate public realm.
