We are beyond ecstatic to announce the Scotch College Teaching and Learning Precinct won the Landscape and Outdoor Space category at the 2021 Regional Learning Environments awards. The project was nominated for the Regional awards after being awarded in 2020 at the Learning Environments WA awards. Scotch was one of ten entries from across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
The jury citation reads:
Scotch College has enhanced its learning and teaching precinct by creating a landscape that is an extension to the buildings and takes the Mathematics and Music curriculum into the outdoors. Nineteen mathematical learning opportunities have been embedded in the environment overtly or with subtlety and the motifs of music have become part of the design. Music has a significant role in the school’s culture and history and this has been honoured in these spaces. Students engage with the outdoor spaces both as breakout rooms and presentation spaces for learning and teaching and for relaxing during breaks. The effectiveness of moving learning outdoors while retaining the opportunity for students to switch to non-classroom mode and socialise is clearly seen in the mix of semi-enclosed and open spaces plus casual corners with variable use seating. The implementation of “Learnscapes” has provided the opportunity for teacher and students to shift from traditional forms of delivery to engaging with 21stC notions of learning and teaching, well supported by the construction of the learning spaces. This is an outstanding project where the landscape design outcome demonstrates that the brief has been realised in an elegant, functional and pedagogically robust space for learning, teaching and socialising.
Photos: Silvertone Photography
