Potter & Holmes have successfully completed a three phase alteration and refurbishment of Islington's Robert Blair Community School.
Phase 1:
New Children's Centre and ancillary community facilities created within the existing building. A critical series of detailed planning exercises and meetings suggested the best use of the limited space available.
Key benefits included:
- Cohesive and seamless progression from Nursery to Primary with all classrooms having direct access to outdoor play
- Significant reduction in circulation
- Colonisation of additional external space to enlarge Early Years outdoor play area
- New separate access and additional entrance from northern playground to encourage involvement from local families
- Reuse of a redundant WC block
Phase 2:
Upgrading of existing Primary classrooms to suit current national curriculum teaching methods.
Key benefits included:
- Classrooms enlarged to meet current standards
- Improved class based storage and craft facilities
- Classrooms twinned to provide back to back services, vertically grouped to provide the most economic and least disruptive intervention
Phase 1 & 2 were run concurrently.
Phase 3:
Provision of New staff facilities, playground alterations, repairs and play equipment.
Key benefits included:
- Improved staff facilities
- New staff resources area for lesson preparation
- Extensive repairs to playground wall
- New play equipment for Children's Centre
