Open now for just over a year, the children and staff have well and truly bedded as much as the extensive landscaping and planting. And the needs of the children and staff, as well as the natural setting of the school buildings, drive the narrative of this short film.
The new building was part of an ambitious school rebuilding programme by the London Borough of Southwark, replacing a dated ‘temporary’ single story pre-fab from 1971, and the vision for the school was developed in close collaboration with the council, the school staff and children. The result is a building set within extensive landscaping and outdoor learning spaces, and with connectivity to nature from every internal space...