Study visits

Making Space 2010 conference delegates can choose to attend one of the following study visits on Thursday 7 October 2010.

Each visit comprises guided tours of a diverse range of new schools and other spaces and will provide an opportunity at a lunchtime seminar to discuss their creation with the architects, planners and users involved.

Study visit 1: Edinburgh

Edinburgh is in the midst of an ambitious schools building programme with over 20 new and refurbished schools opening across the city in the last few years and a further eight schools opening in the next two years. The City of Edinburgh Council is committed to creating 21st century schools that can meet the demands of educational developments such as Curriculum for Excellence and are supportive of a range of activities associated with the learning process.

Programme

• Welcome seminar at Edinburgh City Chambers. Chaired by Councillor Marilyne Maclaren, Convenor of
Education and Riccardo Marini, Edinburgh City Design Leader

• Bonaly Primary School and/or Juniper Green Primary School, a new facility catering for nursery and primary age pupils (3-12 years)

• Woodlands School, a new special school catering for secondary pupils (12-18 years) who have significant and complex learning
difficulties in the moderate to severe range

• Working lunch

• Tynecastle High School, a brand new secondary school.

Study visit 2: East/West Lothian

This visit begins in Linlithgow in West Lothian, home to Donaldson’s School, which is the UK’s newest and most modern environment designed specifically to educate and care for children who are deaf or have severe speech and language difficulties. We then travel to East Lothian, which lies immediately east of Edinburgh's suburban edge, to Dunbar and beyond to the Scottish Borders. As in many parts of Scotland there are a number of innovative new schools that have been built to serve the needs of the local community.

Programme

• Donaldson’s School, Linlithgow is Scotland’s national residential and day school providing education, therapy and care for pupils aged 2-19 years who are deaf or have severe speech and language difficulties

• Welcome seminar chaired by Don Ledingham Executive Director of Education and Children’s Services for East Lothian Council

• Working lunch

• Tour of Sanderson’s Wynd Primary School, Tranent, which comprises facilities for children from nursery to primary 7 (3-12 years) and also houses The Hub, a facility for pupilswith severe complex needs.

Study visit 3: Glasgow

Since being named UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999 Glasgow has undergone an extensive programme of regeneration and change
and the next exciting phase of the City’s development is underway as it prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2014. As part of the
Education Estate Strategy the council has spent £550m to radically improve the condition and quality of its school buildings over the last 10 years and has built a total of 100 new establishments.

Programme

• Hazelwood School, a unique purpose built school for children with sensory and dual sensory impairment

• Hidden Garden, a garden for the 21st century, the result of a 2-year consultation and design process that have seen the transformation of a derelict industrial site on Glasgow's south side

• Lunchtime seminar chaired by Maureen McKenna, Executive Director of
Education, Glasgow City Council

• North Glasgow College, has built up strong links with the local community over its 40- year history and this new building aims to further enhance these links by providing facilities that will encourage increased
community and public use.

For further information about the conference please visit www.childreninscotland.org.uk/makingspace or contact Hannah Goodrum (e: hgoodrum@childreninscotland.org.uk, t: 0131 222 2431). One day rates are available from £95.