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in. Te type or suitability of chairs hadn’t been given much thought and schools now needed to create more usable spaces. Tis led to an increase for individual folding exam desks with lightweight chairs. However, at KI I think the biggest shift we’ve experienced was with our Postura+ high chair. Tis was most likely down to the fact that rooms set up as labs now had to be used as all day classrooms and chairs were required to have seat backs to make them more comfortable for students.’


Geeves thinks greater flexibility in classroom layout will continue ‘Tis could


include the use of tablet chairs that create individual workstations. Our Myke chair was launched in January and is a great fit for this purpose and has been well received. Moving forwards, having furniture that’s light and easily moved is of paramount importance, and it’s no surprise that this is becoming the norm – although this does come with an element of limitation, nobody wants to see the start of classes taken up with ten minutes of people adjusting their furniture.’ At the time of writing (April 2021) were the bigger conversations around healthy school design percolating through


the education system? Richard Cottrell thought not: ‘It’s still a bit early. Tey’re either delivering schools that have already been designed or they’re too far in the future. It’s now that we will start to have those conversations.


‘But we have been doing some new schools, where we will address similar issues…. And I think as we go forward everyone will want to address these issues. Tis year’s experience will be very high on schools’ and head teachers’ priorities. We might live in a different world for quite a while.’


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