2 The Clarington Independent, Bovymanville, Saturday, December 17,1994 Newcastle School Plans From page one These windows will allow the of other sites are being looked at for children to see into the gymnasium, a second school in the village." He This idea has also been applied to said housing developers will need to the end exterior wall of the kinder- build schools along with houses in garten and pre-school areas. The the future. lower windows will allow the chil- This new school is not meant to hold the overflow of students, but to replace the school which is currently being used. The new school will be located to the rear of the lot currently occupied by the present-day Newcastle Public School. It will have a southern exposure. exposure. To take advantage of the light, dren to look inside the gym, Ma- kowiecka said. Also, along the upper level there will be a glass wall which will allow people to look down into the stage and stair area. capacity by 150 students, said Will- shcr. As for the staff and teachers of the new school, Willsher said, when compared to the current school, the new one will be "fantastic." The exterior of the building will duplicate some of the elements of the structure of the old school and combine them in a new ; look, said Makowiecka. She said "some people were in- "The vertical windows will bring terested in retaining some of the his- in a lot of natural light," said school trustee Bob Willsher. While it lacks the skylight he the school's preschool and kinder- originally pushed for, Willsher said garten area will be placed on the he is happy with the resulting desouth desouth end of the school. There will s ig n . be four kindergarten rooms, with a The school will be the "largest corridor separating these rooms elementary school in the Northum- torical features of the older building." building." However, on Wednesday evening, evening, a few of the 30 or so parents who attended wanted a more modem modem look to the exterior of the school. Kennedy noted that since the from the one preschool activity. berland-Clarington Board of Educa- concept of the building is still being room and one school play/activity room. There are separate washrooms for the two sections on the one- storey area for the younger children. There will also be a separate play area which will be fenced in. Also, there will bç two separate kitchen areas for the youngsters. It will be the largest K-6 school in the Northumberland-Clarington Board o[ Education In the main two-storey building there are four classrooms along the length side of the gymnasium/ general purpose room. Designers have allowed for a stage and stairs where kids can have their lunches, said Elizabeth Makowiecka, ofZaw- adzki Armin Stevens Architects of Toronto. "The school was designed to have some flexible space." She noted two areas where she, as one of the architects on the project, project, allowed for expandable classroom classroom space if needed. One is on the top floor in a special special education classroom. A room divider can be rolled back to create a larger room. Downstairs, a wall can be rolled back between the health and guidance guidance rooms to create a larger meeting meeting or classroom space. The designers have worked hard at creating a barrier-free school. It includes an elevator that goes from the ground floor to the stage floor and to the second floor. Handicapped Handicapped facilities are in all the student student washrooms and in the girls' and boys' change rooms in the gymnasium gymnasium there are even shower stalls accessible to the handicapped. Within the stage area there is also a "community kitchen." The main office for the administration administration of the school is located on the ground floor, as is the library, resource resource and computer rooms. The new school will have plenty ■ of storage spaces, and a faculty room with a small kitchen space and a pair of washrooms. On the second storey, there will be eight more classrooms, and a teachers' workroom. The special education education classrooms are also situated there. Two features which help to give kids a connection with the space they will be occupying for five to six hours each school day have to do with windows. Along the corridor on the second floor will be windows situated at eye level for students and adults. Makowiecka likened the idea to that of a construction site "where they have viewing windows for people people to see what is going on." tion that will house Junior Kindergarten Kindergarten to Grade 6 students. It exceeds Clarke High School's discussed, the parents' comments would be taken to the discussion table. table. THE ALL NEW «*1*" se *»/* An application by the YWCA in by the municipality. 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