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Learning environments: Finding the Catch Zone...

How effective is your school’s learning environment? How do you organise your classroom and school displays for maximum impact on learning? Fiona Aubrey-Smith discusses the secrets to success and introduces the Catch Zone...

Your children will spend around 10,000 hours in your school over the seven years of their primary education. They spend around half of their waking hours in the physical environment that you provide for them and we know from the research that their environment plays a significant role in their mindset, wellbeing and achievements.

Visiting schools across the country, I have seen noticeable differences in the approaches that are taken to creating learning environments that promote learning. Schools that do this well tend to share the following features...

Children will reflect what they are experiencing. If they can see great care has been taken in ensuring a clean, safe, carefully presented environment then that’s what they will produce in their work and in their demeanour.

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