For the past 3 months, I’ve been working with children at Hunters Bar School, Sheffield one day a week as part of a Creative Partnerships project to design and produce a structure that makes the classroom a more creative learning environment.
The result is fantastic – a set of drawers that look quite ordinary from the outside, but when each drawer opens, the space is transformed to help you learn in different and exciting ways.
For example, the bottom drawer pulls out to form a stage on which you must wear the special hat to give you good luck…
There’s a friendship funfair that pulls out of another drawer, with loads of games and activities designed by children to help you make friends…
Conversation trees grow out the top of the drawers and can be taken around the school – the colours, textures and pictures inspire different conversations…
There’s also a chill out den that folds out one drawer, and an inspiration wave that rolls out of another! As one child exclaimed on seeing the finished result ‘It’s like each drawer is a tardis!’
