The Space Studio

The Space Studio (April 19th): 

Year 10-13 (Ages 14-18, High School)

• Regular classwork in the mornings with project learning in the afternoon/evening.
• School day is 8:30am-5:00pm
• Students are working with local businesses and industry, to learn skills to work in those fields
• Students are learning about problems/challenges for this companies and learning how to solve them/ figuring out solutions
• Classrooms are mobile and boards can be moved into different spaces, so that students can see the information learned during class to help them with they projects. 
• Run very much like a business and project group at a company
• The idea is that students are preparing to learn skills for the area that is surrounding them, West London-Feltham is near Heathrow, so many of the projects center around the field of aeronautics
• Principal teaches

Reflection:

What really impressed me at The Space Studio, was the engagement level of the students. We happened to visit on a day when they were working with students from another Studio school. All of the students were busy building hover crafts. Teachers were circulating and asking questions about designs, providing feedback and letting students work. This school had a lot of technology that was readily available to students, and it was being utilized by students to complete projects. I was particularly impressed with the use of the school's 3D printer to print a part for a crane design they were working on. I was also very impressed with the displays of student work, and how students were very much self driven to research particular topics and then to find a way to present that information.