At the start of our topic we drew our own classroom on A3 paper and voted for the best one. We thought really carefully about the different furniture we could use from the brochure and one of them was tiered seating.
Then we had a look at the room and we wanted to figure out what kind of learning zones to include. We decided on an instruction zone, quiet and independent zone, collaboration zone and a discovery zone. We split into teams to research each zone and found out what we would need to set up for each area. For example, we thought the instruction zone would best suit tiered seating.
Then we began working towards our school assembly and we made a model using wood work and measurement so we were learning lots of different things at the same time. We focussed on the area of the classroom and the scale when creating our model. We presented our model at the assembly and then began to look at the technology we could include.
Recently, we used the school stage to create tiered seating for our debating project and it worked really well. Everyone felt comfortable and could see what they were doing.
Our next steps are working out more things and looking at our class budget.
