Future Classrooms Today – The Shopping Task…

You have an totally empty Year Six classroom space and want to turn it into an effective learning and teaching space fit for the 21st century (or the next 5 years at least). You’ve got £20,000 to make a start. Everyone in the school is on board with your vision for teaching and learning and you just have to put in the orders for what is required. What’s on your shopping list? What might you acquire with little cost?

Not enough money? Almost certainly. Don’t let that put you off making an effective start.

I’m working on a similar, if slightly more realistic, brief together with Tony Sheppard – aka Grumbledook – at the moment in Northants.  I’ve read case-studies on how existing primary classrooms have been transformed into effective learning spaces but have rarely seen the bill at the end of the process. Sometimes the involvement of interested educational companies, throwing in expertise and products for free, masks the actual costs of emulating such projects. I’m not averse to that kind of corporate involvement but is it possible to change learning spaces on a relative shoestring? Where to start? That’s where you come in… all ideas greatly appreciated.

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