WHAT'S THE INSIDE LIKE? Above is the beautiful reception desk designed and made by the artist Andrew Skelton. If you can remember from earlier postings, it is recycled!!! The limewashed (white coloured) timber it is made of was saved from the big 'glulam' beams that held up the roof of the hall in the old infants school.

The desk is lovely and curvy and different heights and everyone loves to lean on it and stroke it and little children love to push their faces into the pink recesses. Andrew has also made a 'wiggly' seat in the atrium and the reception desk 'wiggles' through the entrance lobby and becomes a seat outside as well.

Lynne the Headteacher gave the construction team presents, Tom gave a speech saying thank you to all the folks who had helped make the school so special and Richard the labourer from KIER who has been on site everyday being really really helpful (and is still smiling), got a special thankyou.
There were lots of flowers. All sorts of folks had sent cards and flowers, saying thank you to the team for their hard work and wishing all of us the very best in our 'wonderful', 'beautiful' 'lovely' new school. The 'touchdown shelf' was a good place to display them all. Can you see the big screen monitor on the wall? This can be linked to a laptop and show anything so folks in the waiting area can see what we have been doing.
The atrium is also the home of the library, so vistors can look at a book while they wait on the wiggly seat. The library has a special curved seat/screen designed by Kath that screens off the quiet part of the library for working.