Green room project at Bexhill High

NEXT Tuesday (July 14) is your chance to see a woodland walk designed and built by Year 8 students and teachers at Bexhill High School.

This Green Room project is based in the Ninfield Environmental Study Centre - an area of woodland leased by the Bexhill Consortium of Schools from the local electricity supply company.

Fifty students - along with science, maths and design technology teachers - have been looking at how the outdoor environment can be a stimulus for learning.

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They intend to use the experience to influence how outdoor spaces at the new Bexhill High School site in Gunters Lane wil be shaped.

The school is a pathfinder Building Schools for the Future project in East Sussex, and is the first new secondary school to be built in the county, opening in 2010.

The students have been working with artists from Blank studios in Brighton to develop a whole number of projects at Ninfield, from building a camera obscura to a sundial tower.

Catherine Orbach, Director Creative Partnerships Sussex and Surrey, which is supporting the project, said: "Bexhill High School is taking a very radical approach to learning in the new school and therefore the new school design itself is very exciting.

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"I trust that these experiments on outdoor learning will also be taken seriously and be part of the new diet for a 21st century student in Bexhill."

A small team of students involved this year will become Green Room ambassadors, working with younger students to further explore the use of space inside and outside the learning pods in the new school.

The celebration - open to the public - takes place on Tuesday between 3pm and 5pm at the Ninfield Environmental Study Centre in Potsmans Lane, Catsfield.

There will be tours of the walk, presentations and displays. Refreshments will be provided.

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