PRINCIPAL PRIORITIES

1. Add covering to outdoor eating area
2. Add skylights or other natural light to the ‘interior only’ classrooms
3. Update Kindergarten playground with umbrellas for shade, new paint, multi-sensory play equipment, and new grass around the big tree.

SITE USE AND FUNCTIONALITY

General Education Classrooms

• The original classroom buildings are in ‘pod’ configurations with interior circulation for most classrooms and adjoining doors to adjacent classrooms. Newer classrooms are at-grade, permanent, modular structures. All classrooms have a built-in teaching wall. Not all Kindergarten classrooms have attached restroom facilities. Backpack hooks are available along the classroom exterior wall.
• The principal notes a general desire for modernization of interior and exterior finishes, as well as furniture.

Special Education Classrooms

• This site holds two (2) SDC classes in rooms that have adjoining toileting and storage facilities.
• Additional storage/casework for diapering is desired.

Student Services / Counseling

• Spaces for student services are dispersed between the two main pod buildings with one RSP room in each. Speech pathologist and other counselors occupy small offices within each pod building.
• It is desired to have additional space for assessments, calm-down areas, and acoustic separation for Speech.

Staff and Administrative Spaces

• The principal notes that the Health office is too small to support the student population and often gets more crowded than other sites.

Kitchen / Cafeteria / Food Service

• The kitchen is located within the Multi-Purpose Room. Hot and cold food carts are set up near the kitchen for the student serving line.
• This site currently serves the most student meals and was identified among the sites in most need of a student serving line.
• Students dine at tables outdoors. Trees and umbrellas provide pleasant protection from sun but provide no protection for rain and trees create a bird nuisance.

Student Assembly

• The MPR has in-wall tables and two (2) retractable basketball hoops and backstops. Presentation technology includes a mobile LCD screen as well as a ceiling-mounted projector, pull-down screen, and voice amplification/speaker system.
• This site does not have a permanent stage. A temporary stage is stored in a room of the MPR building.

Library

• The Library is a spacious room within the center of the A Building pod, with high and low, permanent book stacks. Flexible furniture is available in a classroom-like area and students can access computers at stations along the wall. The Library has a wall-mount LCD monitor as well as a mobile LCD monitor.

Physical Education / Athletics Buildings

• The site has an Assisted PE room within one of the permanent modular classrooms.

Outdoor Play Equipment / Playfields / Hardcourts

• The site has an accessible play structure at the upper/lower primary play yard. Shade structures are also in place at the hardcourts that students use for clubs and reading.
• Kids Club shares use of the hardcourts and upper/lower primary play structures.
• The principal notes the Kindergarten play yard as being too small for the current population. The principal also identified an area of poor drainage within the Kindergarten play yard.
• The playfields are difficult to access and not often used.

Specialized Elective Spaces

• The Music room is among one of the interior pod classrooms. It is desired that the Music room be located within the MPR or otherwise away from other classrooms, to avoid noise transfer and disturbance.
• The Computer Lab is no longer used for its original purpose now that each student has a device within their home classroom. This is an area of opportunity for a Maker Space / Flex Lab.
• The Science / Exploration Lab is larger than a typical classroom and has a kitchenette with oven, stove, microwave, refrigerator, and a dishwasher. The perimeter of the room is occupied with open storage shelving and bins. Bin storage is also used to separate the kitchenette from the classroom space. Furniture within this room is comprised of science-grade tables and stools. A center-mount projector and drop-down screen are present, as is a mobile LCD monitor.

Restrooms

• An additional staff and student restrooms is desired near the East side of the B Building.

Site / Parking / Drop-Off

• The principal notes desired improvement of traffic and pedestrian circulation at the front parking and drop-off area to reduce crossing and provide safe waiting areas.

Technology

• Classroom technology has been upgraded with a mobile LCD monitor.
• The principal would like increased access to electrical outlets for charging throughout the classrooms.