New Barn Day 5 Update

By Mrs c Hern5th June 2015

Yesterday, the children had a lovely day searching for fossils, eating lunch on the beach and paddling in the sea!

The BBQ in the evening was delicious and the shindig was fantastic.

Today, the children are on their way to Corfe castle to visit the ruin. They’ll be eating lunch in the sunshine and visiting the old fashioned sweet shop before heading home.

The coach will be leaving Corfe castle at approximately 1pm. Hopefully the traffic will be clear and the coach should arrive back at school between 4pm and 4:30pm.

We will try and keep you posted with possible delays via text.

 

Year 3 visit the new school

By D Gray5th June 2015

Year 3 had a great time visiting our new Brooklands Farm Primary School on Countess Way. We enjoyed walking through our community and even had a little picnic on the new field! Year 3 asked some fantastic questions and have grown their understanding of how a building gets from the design stage to the finished stage.

Year 1c have gone design crazy!

By jenniferhover3rd June 2015

On Monday we made a client brief to give to Miss Roberts class explaining everything we would like to see in a year 1 classroom.

 

 

We then swapped with Year 4 and they gave us this list:

 

Today we started drawing our designs for the different areas Year 4 have asked for.

 

 

 

 

Designing has begun!

3rd June 2015V Holloway

5c have today started their design process. After a careful look at our client’s brief, we created our own project brief to make sure we were clear on our client’s requirements and priorities. We then split into two teams, one team was in charge of designing the layout of the space. Where would each area the client wanted go? Was it a good ideas to have a calm, relaxing area next to the noisy play area? They used a new app on the ipads to help them create this!

The other team were in charge of choosing a colour scheme, we used watercolours and paints to create different shades of colours. We worked as a team to choose the colours which we thought would look good together!

Our next step is to split into our area design teams, in small groups we will design a specific area with the allocated space and agreed colour scheme!

 

Also we were very lucky today to be visited by Kate and Simon who both work for Willmott Dixon. They spoke to us about the whole building process, from the design all the way to maintenance and client feedback. We learnt about the importance of listening to our clients and redrafting our designs!

New Barn Day 2

By Mrs c Hern3rd June 2015
Yesterday brightened up and the children had lots of fun meeting the Dorset nature, cooking stew and making pots! Everyone had a good night sleep and were a bit grumpy when they got woken up to get ready this morning, but now everyone is looking forward to the day ahead.
 Today is the living history day where the children will be learning about the Vikings. Fingers crossed it stays dry so the children can build dens later!

Year 5’s Ignite Trip to the New School!

By V Holloway2nd June 2015

Year 5 were extremely lucky today as they were the first children to visit the new Brooklands Farm Primary School!

We walked (very sensibly) to the new school, where we met the builders from Willmott Dixon! We were the first children to step into the new school, it was very exciting and a privilege!

Year 5 split into two groups. One group went on a tour round the new building, we had to wear high-visibility jackets and hard hats. We got to see all the new classrooms, as we walked round we thought carefully about how we could transform this building into a Brooklands Farm School! We had lots of ideas including colourful pieces of artwork and coloured tiles on the carpet, and of course making it clear that we are ‘weaving a learning journey’! Finally, we got the see the new school hall and the school field! As part of our building project, we are designing a space for another year group so we asked the builder lots of questions to help us with our designs!

While the other group were having their tour, the rest of year 5 had a picnic in the new school hall! We had some biscuits and squash. Miss Low really wanted our opinion on the school hall and asked how we can reflect the ethos of Brooklands Farm in there.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the new school and felt very privileged to be the first to visit!