Education Case Study - St Mary's C of E School
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The design, resulting from consultation with governors, staff and children aims to provide a flexible, multi-use space of learning, activity and fun. Amphitheatre seating encloses the rubber paved central circle and painted columns form the stage backdrop. The educational part of the design has a Christian message together with a theme of time and space. The central circle has compass markings and the children's own shadow shows the time on an analametic sundial. A floor mosaic of recycled materials depicts the development of civilisation beginning with the standing stones marking our primal origins. |
It shows life BC and the birth and celebration of Jesus represented as a mosaic star with a small drinking fountain to symbolise the Water of Life. Two thousand years culminate in the main water feature as a celebration of the millennium which allows exciting but safe interaction with water. The mosaic continues depicting the children's ideas of the future. The school governors commented: "Our thanks to The Landscape Practice whose vision and direction of the entire project has been quite outstanding" and Bishop John Cavell wrote, "I was most impressed by all I saw: the imaginative design, superb craftsmanship and artistry of the whole centre." |
