Category Archives: construction

Community Project – a school orchard

Posted on April 5, 2012 by mwalker

Last month my school community led by a dedicated group of parents came together to construct a school orchard. This project has been in the planning phase for over 12 months as the committee rasied funds, involved some university students in the … Continue reading →

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New School Facilities

Posted on January 18, 2010 by mwalker

This photo of the new school gym and performing arts centre was taken over the January 2010 school holidays. Part of the governments recession proofing strategy in 2009 was to build much needed school buildings. Elsternwick Primary School was entitled … Continue reading →

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Reflections on a year just finished – what changed and what’s ahead.

Posted on December 23, 2009 by mwalker

Photo courtesy of Bayside leader At the end of a school year I generally get a little reflective – after a day or two on holidays that is and after I’ve spent some time catching up on the uncompleted tasks … Continue reading →

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Parramatta Catholic Education Office tours Elsternwick

Posted on November 12, 2008 by mwalker

This week I have had colleagues from the Catholic Education office in Parramatta NSW visit Elsternwick Primary to look at the use of flexible learning spaces, how technology is embedded into facilities and the curriculum, as well as a model of … Continue reading →

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New Learning Spaces in Denmark

Posted on October 28, 2008 by mwalker

Thanks to a new site I discovered by Andrew Fraser I was able to get this clip from a school in Denmark who are trying to change their pedagogy using more flexible spaces – really like his comment that the … Continue reading →

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New Learning Spaces

Posted on July 30, 2008 by mwalker

This is another post on learning spaces we have constructed. These images are of a new building that houses years 5 and 6 students. The first image is of a large central spaces that facilitates learning in different size groups. … Continue reading →

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old library being removed

Posted on July 13, 2008 by mwalker

old library being removed, originally uploaded by markwalker.teacher. Just before the school holidays the old library was shifted to another school. Our new library which is part of the major construction project should be open in the third week of … Continue reading →

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Learning Spaces

Posted on July 3, 2008 by mwalker

  As we near the occupancy of the first new learning spaces constructed at Elsternwick Primary since 1920, and before I am completely swept away with the detail surrounding the final stages of this building, the whole construction process begs … Continue reading →

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Design meets learning

Posted on April 15, 2008 by mwalker

The teachers in the Years 5/6 team at Elsternwick Primary are faced with many challenges and questions when co-designing learning environments that stimulate and promote both collaborative and individual learning as well as the environment supporting students and teachers living a set of values: … Continue reading →

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