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BA - Papers of George and Judith Baines
- 6 - Brize Norton

StorageSite	UCL Institute of Education
Level	File
Reference Number	BA/6/10
Title	Slides of Brize Norton Primary School
Date	mid 1960s
Description	Includes images of the school building as well as children in the classrooms and playground. The following text was written by George Baines and sent to the archive with the slides. "Beginnings of organising school buildings by use of space for specific activity and learning rather than (not instead of) time-structured days in age-based classrooms. This approach fostered the purpose-built design of Eynsham C primary School which was 'purpose-built' not 'open-plan'. The terms 'intergrated day' and 'vertical grouping' began to be used by others failing to recognise these arrangements as normal in small rural schools. Brize Norton was such a school but the development was in using space rather than time as an organisational structure. Transparencies: (The plan was drawn up up by Mary and David Medd, of the Ministry of Education Architects Deparment. The photographs were taken by them.) 1. Plan of lay-out of old village school 2. The building with the School House 3. The front yard 4. using the yard - send experience - sand 5. using the yard - send experience - wood 6. painting 7. music making 8. sewing 9. make-believe with dolls 10. weighing experiences 11. library area 12. studio - drawing 13. individual attention - teacher availability 14. Display - bottles as starting points for 'integrated' or 'cross-curriculum' studies 15. 'Sitting room' with dressing up clothes 16. Dressing up in sitting room 17. Reading in sitting room 18. 'Kitchen' area - cooking 19. 'Kitchen' area - dyeing 20. 'Kitchen' area - dyeing 21. 'Studio' area - block-printing 22. 'Home-play' - rocking horse 23. 'Maths. & science' area 24. 'Maths. & science' area 25. 'Maths. & science' area - library beyond (corrugated area used as screens to divide space) 26. 'Library' area 27. 'Library' area - helping one another across age range 28. Village Hall (just across the road) - movement 29. Use of cloakroom space to display 'field-trip' finds 30. Use of cloakroom space to display 'field-trip' finds 31. 'Studio area' - display of prints 32. 'Studio area' - clay models on display
Extent	32 slides
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	Currently unavailable.

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