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Grange Primary School
Date: 2006
Education
Client: London Borough of Newham
This project is funded by the West ham and Plaistow NDC, also our clients for the nearby Brooks, who see this as another aspect of the regeneration of the neighbourhood. Initially PRP tendered for preparing educational development plans for four schools in the area. This lead to a feasibility study for the Grange School which involved the development of the brief in consultation with the school children, parents, staff and the head.
The proposals involve full refurbishment of the existing 1970s buildings and the construction of a new extension including four new classrooms, library/ ITC suite and necessary ancillary accommodation. The enlarged facilities convert 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.
Our proposals also involve improvements to the external environment which has attracted additional funding due to the positive impact that they will have on the immediate public realm.