Brighton College Introduces its New Teaching Hub
Innovative tech and chairs that aid concentration are at the core of Brighton College?s teaching hub
Walk through the new Creative Learning Centre at Brighton College, and you?ll see a vast, rounded-gabled penthouse classroom in which pupils sit on wheeled chair-and-desk combinations, moving around the space for group work and spinning to face the teacher as she walks around the room.
As these chairs are designed to gently rock ? an attribute proven to enhance concentration ? some children may be lightly swaying backwards as they listen intently to their lesson.
Introducing the hub
This is Brighton College?s new experimental teaching hub, and where the school?s new Head of Creative Learning Thomas Godber is implementing new teaching practices that he and other staff have discovered on their global travels. The kernel of the idea came when Headteacher Richard Cairns went travelling and saw how other nationalities taught their future generations. He returned having cherry-picked some of the best practices he had seen, and decided that a new building for the 21st century should be designed, providing a space for innovative teaching ideas.
Above, the new building opened in September
The building opened its doors in September and has already proved an enormous hit. ?The pupils have quickly got used to the new flexibility created by the innovative furniture,? says Deputy Headmistress Jo-Anne Riley.
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