You've got a brief to design a new school - and everyone's got an opinion on what they want for the money.
Could you balance the demands from a range of interested parties, deliver a design to a high standard and still keep within budget? Here's your chance to try!
Launch design your school
We've simplified the process - in real life there are lots of other competing pressures, and you would be lucky indeed to start building on a perfectly flat surface! The values ascribed to various choices are illustrative, rather than accurate costings of what each facility would cost, or an actual budget would be.
Need inspiration? Here's some great schools...
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What makes a great school? Oxley Park
Watch now to access more details of What makes a great school? Oxley ParkSuccess in attracting pupils to Oxley Park has meant design challenges to fit enough classrooms - but pupils are still enthusiastic about their school.
Level: 1 Introductory
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What makes a great school? Water Hall
Watch now to access more details of What makes a great school? Water HallThe rebuilt Water Hall School in Milton Keynes has found favour with the people who have to use it every day - the pupils. They shared with us how great design was helping their education.
Level: 1 Introductory
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Learn more to access more details of Design thinkingAre you ever frustrated with something that you thought you could design better? This free course, Design thinking, will show you how to structure your natural creativity to come up with solutions to all kinds of problems, and have fun in the process too!
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I've been trying for weeks to do this exercise, and it is very frustrating. I feel helpless. Quite honestly, if I went to Open Learn and tried to do this, I probably wouldn't look at the OU again and I have really enjoyed the rest of the Access module.
YO33 is an excellent introductory course to the OU.
The final project was, by necessity, simplified in comperison with reality, but demonstrated some of the complex interelationships between some of the stakeholders and other factors.
With poor eyesight manoeuvring the schoolrooms on the grid was nigh on impossible and even my som, who did this for me under my instructions, struggled with the dexteriry required.
Nontheless a rewarsing excercise wurhin a rewarsing course.