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Cluster of classrooms adjoin flexible circulation zones
including an adult learning centre and use of the halls. The building serves the local church community as well as the existing village and a new housing development, bringing these communities together. The design by ADP consists of a curved
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UPILS at Cringleford, a C of E Voluntary Aided Primary School in Norwich, have moved into their new £6.6m school building, which will eventually accommodate 420 pupil places and provide a 26-place playgroup. The client was a partnership between
Norfolk County Council and the Diocese of Norwich, with the Council investing more than £4m. The new school also provides facilities for the wider community,
circulation spine with three teaching wings projecting out and on to the landscape behind. The curved timber cladding to the front of the building provides a welcoming invitation. Each wing accommodates one Key Stage: Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. The pupils will move through these wings as they progress through their school life. The wings consist of a cluster of classrooms adjoining flexible circulation zones used as informal teaching spaces and resource areas. The position of these clusters behind the central spine provides a secure line between the community and classroom and play areas, enabling areas of the building to be zoned off when in use out of school hours.
Teaching gardens A key concept was the flow of the internal learning spaces to the outdoor spaces with each classroom leading out to teaching gardens within the rear landscape. Timber clad toilet pods are accessible from both the classrooms and the external areas. The curved form extends outside to the footpaths, providing the children with clear wayfinding and two main entrances, a requirement of the brief. To the front of the building rainbow colours in the planting progress concentrically towards the school, continuing the sequence through the arc forms of the building. An interactive outdoor area includes a
large playground, grass pitches, allotments, an amphitheatre and a trim trail, together with a sensory garden and willow tunnel.
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