ccording to Jerry Tate, Partner at Tate Harmer Architects, the key word that most characterises the approach of Cranleigh School in the leafy Surrey Hills is ‘outdoorsy’. The key success of the new building his practice has created at the school is how it engages as much as possible with the natural environment while providing healthy teaching spaces. Cranleigh is divided – by a small road – into a Preparatory school for 5-11 year olds, and a boarding co-ed school for 13-18 year olds, and benefits from a beautiful semi-rural site, surrounded by fields and hills. The school’s ethos is fuelled by its


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connection with this landscape, including a strong focus on sport. The new arts, science and design & technology (DT) building for the ‘Prep’ school embodies that connection. Although facing onto a raised cricket pitch along its northern flank, the school’s buildings were previously somewhat disconnected. The provision for art and science was not ideal, with the former located in a mediocre 1970s single-storey building, and the latter dispersed across the site. With all this in mind, Tate Harmer, who specialise in sustainable timber buildings for education with a pedigree including the


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