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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Taking steps in expanding your school

By Victoria Junes


Schools have several options for when they start to become oversubscribed. They can simply reject all the students who want to come and stay within their limits, or they can expand. Yet funds are usually the sticking point. If they expand their building will they have the funds to hire more teachers? Or if they hire more teachers, where will they put the other classes? Is it worth it to expand? How can they know?

Space being the issue in most cases, what a lot of schools have done is to hire or buy modular buildings. This gives them a chance to provide a warm heated classroom at a fraction of what it would cost to build on. No planning permission is needed, and they can accommodate more children in a reasonable environment.

Portable toilets are certainly not what they used to be. One could hardly tell the difference now between a portable toilet and one within a real building. They have proper flushing toilets in them, , with loo roll, and a proper basin to wash hands in. They are not the scary things people used to disappear into at festivals.

The great thing about modular buildings is that schools can be flexible. If they need an extra classroom, they can stack them, or if they don't need the extra room, they can downsize. As far as providing the necessities, you cannot fault them, they are perfectly adequate for housing children to learn throughout the day. However some parents may not like their aesthetic appeal.

The children are rarely bothered by being in the class that meets "outside". If anything it's a novelty and they love it. Teachers often prefer it as well as there are less interruptions and distractions. Modular buildings provide a perfect trial period for the school to work out if expanding is something that will work for them or not.




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