Project ‘I Love My School’
Our classroom should be about comfort, serenity, cheerful mood and inspiration, as students and teachers spend half the day in it. Learning environment should harmonise the process of stress and workload at school.
For hours on end students’ mental activity is focused on perceiving, analysing and synthesising new information in order to memorise it permanently. The visual-spatial learning environment is essential for the learning process because of its supporting and stimulating role.
- The classroom should be painted in soft pastel colours, with different tones of the same shades. The use of any contrast colours should be avoided – a tendency we often see when painting wall borders or choosing furniture, blinds, flooring, etc.
- The walls are cleared of all display boards and notes containing lots of information as they burden space, students and teachers. Teacher recommends the educational information that is to be mounted on the wallpaper.
- The wall on which the chalkboard is mounted is painted in pastel colours. A teacher’s desk, a small cupboard and a flower stand are put in front of the chalkboard. We remove the display boards from the wall to prevent the children from visual distractions and keep them focused on the information written on the chalkboard.
- We use large images on the back walls in the form of photo wallpaper. Locker units for the kids are often located at the back. We then use friezes with multiple images along the length of the classroom or over the lockers.
- Photo wallpaper is a big and strong accent in any space and is consistent with the colour tones used in the classrooms.
- Photo wallpaper contains positive words, educational information and inspirational quotes – different for each classroom as recommended by the teachers.
- Friezes are composed of multiple theme images, for example: English Grammar guides, rules and principles in painting, the meaning of colours, Space, Earth, artists and their works, etc.
- Friezes along the school corridors and foyers – with positive words or educational information.
- We design an interior project for the whole school:
- complete colour design linked to one common theme
- classroom, classroom corridor and foyer aesthetics and visual connection
- Our interior project offers:
- wall colours
- door colours
- desks
- flooring
- photo wallpaper
- harmonious arrangement of furniture and flower displays in the school
Education through experience
- Project ‘Art Foyer’
Creating resting places in school foyers.
- Children create their own furniture from recycled materials.
- Children study various techniques to restore and decorate furniture.
- Project ‘Children and Flowers’
Creating flower displays. Children learn about flowers and develop their creativity:
- By creating beautifully arranged spaces with herbs and flowers inside the classroom.
- By decorating beautiful flower pots and flower stands.
- By painting and decoupage.
- Project ‘Picture Postcard Gardens’
Let us decorate the school outside space by dressing trees, painting benches, decorating fences, planting herb gardens.
