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Educational Builds in Schools
Why commission an educational roundhouse build at your school?
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Realise the potential of your school & its grounds, increasing the quality of space available, as well as investing in the improved well being of your pupils.
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Solve - Provides a beautiful building whose benefits reach beyond the life of the build. As well as a platform for further arts and crafts projects, it adds value by providing a resource for the school and lending itself as a unique space that can be used and rented for events and activities outside of the school curriculum.
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Improve -A building that is both curvilinear and able to breath, is conducive to a more positive, relaxed and inclusive learning environment.
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Accessible workshops tailored for all age groups and learning abilities that are both energising and engaging.
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Enhance your school grounds with this hand crafted building and increase a sense of pride in your own school environment.
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Save - By enclosing space more efficiently it not only reduces the amount of materials required than a traditional build but also creates a more energy efficient space that both breaths and helps regulate the temperature within the build.
An Integrative Learning Experience
By linking the project to different aspects of the National Curriculum we can provide more relevance to what they are learning by putting it into a more realistic context. Some pupils can find it difficult to grasp certain concepts within a more theoretical and classroom based environment, and so by transporting your pupils into a fresh learning environment, children can often be more engaged and motivated to understand and learn.
Our educational workshops nurture creativity, imagination and play. Inquisitive minds become free to explore and through this process, imaginations run wild. Working from the premise of building dens, observing in nature how animals build their spaces, birds building their nests, these influence the design .........
We aim to design a project that not only gives pupils practical experience outside the classroom space, but also provides them with new skills they might not otherwise come across along more traditional educational routes.
Providing pupils with a project where they get to be involved, from the design concept, to watching it grow and evolve, to being the end users of the space, can make for a more fun, engaging and relevant learning experience.
Learning through play and experimentation such as role play or practical activities can often help pupils to apply the theory based learning more effectively.
By getting pupils more interested in their natural environment within the school grounds this can often reach beyond the school gates helping them develop into more responsible members of their local community and getting them engaged in extra curricular activities to support their in-school learning.
We believe the most effective and enjoyable way to learn is by hands-on experience. All our workshops are a combination of theory and practice, which are designed to allow your pupils to learn in a safe, creative and enjoyable way.
Building outdoors is physical so expect some hard work, just bring along enthusiasm, imagination and energy, and anything is possible!
Education
The Roundhouse Company are committed to inspiring and educating people from all walks of life in the art of natural building. We invite people to reconnect not only with nature but with themselves and empower them with skills to bring about positive change within their own lives and their communities. Through creative and practical means we bring together people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, who work as part of a team to create something beautiful. This could be a simple mural using earth plasters to create decorative and sculptural bas-relief or a beautiful wood fired cob oven or seating area.Building with natural materials is fun and the nature and process of working with these materials is very inclusive and encourages a sense of community.
We encourage and promote the principles of sustainable building through our designs and educational workshops. We enjoy collaborating with a wealth of organisations, groups and individuals, from people with mental health problems and learning difficulties to schools and refugee groups.
Education Pack
A typical pack will include the following details:
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Outline of project.
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General outcomes for the workshops in relation to building/ sculpting with cob.
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Details of the practical workshops e.g dates, schedule, what to expect.
Linking to the National Curriculum
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Activities to involve the pupils engagement prior to the build commencing which link to the national curriculum e.g geography, science, maths, art & design, English, P.E
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Evaluation for the pupils to fill out during the course of the build
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Sourcing other local natural build/ historical architecture to visit in the local area to help inspire pupils prior to the design stage. This can prompt an understanding of how things are or were made and looking at where the materials came from.
Design Stage
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Involvement in the design stage - collaboration of ideas - design your own classroom/ design your own playspace...
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What is the space going to be used for, what activities will be held within the space?
Workshops - Hands on workshops could vary from:
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Cob building (ovens, benches, totem poles, low walling)
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Carving wood for decorative cruck frame building entrances/ roundpole support posts
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Natural/artistic finishes - decorative murals that might tell a story, handprints with natural paints, earth tiles, mosaic, willow weaving, stained glass, sculptural bas-reliefs.................
sustainable buildings
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