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Anna Rodier High School Library, France

A NEW MULTI-MEDIA LIBRARY AT ANNA RODIER HIGH SCHOOL, MOULINS, FRANCE… A new school media library in Moulins, France More dedicated spaces aligned with the new digital age and the ability to accommodate various projects were exactly what Anna Rodier…

Peckham Library

A WELCOMING COMMUNITY SPACE IN THE HEART OF PECKHAM… WF undertook the design consultancy and implementation for the refurbishment of this public library after the upgrading of its heating and ventilation system. The council took the opportunity to reassess their…

Exploring the Vital Role of Funding in Libraries

Why is funding important? Libraries play a pivotal role in our communities by providing access to knowledge, supporting literacy, and serving as a safe space for members of the community. Securing funding for libraries is essential to ensure they can…

Raimbeaucourt Library

A welcoming community space for the city of Raimbeaucourt Access to culture for all is essential for the community. Having a friendly space bringing together different cultures was the wish of the city of Raimbeaucourt in France. This is why the multi-welcome space…

How to plan a workshop for modern D&T

If your school is refurbishing or creating new spaces for Design & Technology education in secondary schools, this guide is for you. “How to plan a workshop for modern D&T” has been written specifically for departmental staff, facilities management, and…

Science Labs – Design it, Fit it, Fill it!

Design it fit it fill it – with WF! Having worked alongside third party lab fit-out companies, WF Education wished to be able to offer customers a truly turnkey in-house service – dealing with one friendly team, from render to…

St Martins School Case Study

Unchanged for over 20 years and in need of full modernisation, St. Martins School approached WF Education to bring their tired and dated D&T workshop back to life as the first step to creating a new contemporary STEM space. The…

Co-op Academy Belle Vue Case Study – D&T

Belle Vue Academy has moved into its newly-built facility in Manchester. The building has a capacity for 1200 pupils and includes a community hub, practical science laboratories, library, and IT suite, along with a teaching block and adjoining drama block. …

St Margaret’s School Case Study

St Margaret’s School is a co-educational, independent school for pupils aged 2 to 18 based in Bushey, Hertfordshire. The innovative and forward-thinking school welcomed Sima Bhudia to her new role as Head of Design & Technology in September 2022. Her…

Co-op Academy Belle Vue – A whole new School

The Co-op Academy project team worked with WF Education to plan and implement a number of specialist spaces in the school. We provided furniture and equipment for 80 rooms across the campus, including D&T, Science and a Library.

What do teenagers want from their library?

Are teenagers actively using a library? According to the latest research conducted by the National Literacy Trust in the UK in 2021, around 54% of teenagers aged 13 to 18 reported using their local library within the past year. However,…

The Cantilibra™ Collection

“Cantilibra™ shelving is so versatile… other shelving can look great but it’s no good when you can’t move it. That’s why I always use Cantilibra™” – Richard Reed, Area Library Manager (South Wales) Pontypridd Library Ferndale Library Treorchy Library Treorchy…

Supportive Environments for Teen Literacy

Why is a supportive reading environment so important? To enhance the experience of a reader, especially a teenager, the environment in which reading takes place will make a significant impact on several factors. The right space will allow them to…

Idsall School Case Study

Made to empower young people to explore literature, expandtheir horizons and improve literacy. Download brochure Explore Everna™ Idsall School approached WF Education as they were in need of a complete library re-vamp. Describing their old library as ‘cluttered, ‘dingy’ and…

Why Choose Cantilibra?

Design that stands the test of time Cantilibra™ is an intelligently designed shelving system that has been created with care, to function with integrity over a long period of time. Cantilibra™ is a flexible system which allows you to achieve…

Encouraging Adolescents to Read?

Living in a World Full of Distraction A book was maybe once the best way a teenager could escape from reality, get immersed in a great story, and spend hours entertaining themselves. As well as being a pleasurable hobby, reading…

The Amelia Scott Centre

A combined art gallery, museum, and library in Tunbridge Wells. WF Education is delighted to have been a part of this ambitious integrated services project. Originally conceived as a millennium project, construction finally started in 2020. The project to convert…

Paddock Wood Library

Based in Tonbridge in Kent the Paddock Wood Library was founded in 1889 and has been serving the community ever since. Their range of services are wide, it deals mostly with public issues from social services to business, community, education, learning, health, wellbeing, culture, job services, transportation and much more.

Southend University and Public Library

The Forum, a four storey, multi-million-pound integrated public and academic library serves the community in Southend, Essex. The project was a joint venture between Southend -on-Sea Borough Council, the University of Essex, and South Essex Council. 

The Future of D&T 

Let us consider the importance of the skills themselves, what we mean by skills, and then explore how a skills-versus-knowledge balance might work. 

The Power of Storytelling

Rather than being restricted to rigid structures and activities, there are innovative ways to strike a healthy balance between academic freedom and frameworks within the learning environment. 

The Storyhouse Chester

The Storyhouse Chester WF Education

Engaging teenagers to read for pleasure

Rather than being restricted to rigid structures and activities, there are innovative ways to strike a healthy balance between academic freedom and frameworks within the learning environment. 

Hillbourne Primary

Hillbourne Primary School WF Education

The Power of Demonstration

Laboratories are intended for practical work, vital for pupil learning in science.

Claria™ – Creating Comfortable

Rather than being restricted to rigid structures and activities, there are innovative ways to strike a healthy balance between academic freedom and frameworks within the learning environment. 

What skills are your students developing in STEM?

Let us consider the importance of the skills themselves, what we mean by skills, and then explore how a skills-versus-knowledge balance might work. 

Designing Libraries

A brief guide to successfully managing the process of planning and implementing a new or refurbished library interior. 

Pontypridd Library

The new £38 million development in Pontypridd comprises three buildings. The ovular building hosts the new library, council customer contact point and leisure and fitness centre.

Your Laboratory Design Checklist

Thinking of designing or refurbishing your science laboratory?

Whitepaper: The Libraries of Tomorrow

Science and research are key to addressing humanity’s biggest challenges, now and in the future. Creating the right spaces for teaching the next generation is essential.

A Review of the Learning Space: A Global View

The influence of the learning space: not well understood and ignored for a long time, the movement has now found its voice globally.

7 Top Tips to Maximise Library Utilisation

Libraries come in all shapes and sizes. In fact, few building projects are as complex as a library in terms of a mixed audience, equipment, and purpose.

Spaces to Enhance Engagement

Can libraries encourage us to browse, select, stay and read rather than check and go?

Colour Your World

It has long been accepted – by artists, fashion designers and interior designers in particular – that colours can affect our mood.

Visualisers in Education

The visualiser has been around for some time; however, recent events have seen a surge in the use of visualisers in classrooms and they are becoming a popular alternative to crowding around a demonstration or PowerPoint.

Eat-in VS Take out

Can libraries encourage us to browse, select, stay and read rather than check and go?

Fitness Suites for Education?

Instinctively we know that the spaces we live and work in have an impact on how we feel and, in turn, affect our ability to perform the activities in which we are engaged.

The Science of Space – Laboratories of Tomorrow

Science and research are key to addressing humanity’s biggest challenges, now and in the future. Creating the right spaces and environments for teaching the next generation is essential.

What is an Activity Studio?

An Activity Studio is a flexible space to facilitate and promote physical activity, across all ages and abilities, designed with your input and your educational vision in mind.

St Marys Calne School – Wiltshire

St Mary’s Calne School Wiltshire WF Education

Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School decided to relocate the D&T department from several workshops located outside the main teaching buildings of the school, to a single facility.

The Hive

A unique partnership initiative between Worcestershire County Council and the University of Worcester; the first fully integrated and jointly-run university and local authority library.

Kingston Library

Kingston Library, has relocated and officially opened in a brand new purpose built building in the centre of the thriving Kingston Centre shopping and leisure area.

Student Environment

Instinctively we know that the spaces we live and work in have an impact on how we feel and, in turn, affect our ability to perform the activities in which we are engaged.

Wigan and Leigh College

The Wigan and Leigh College Campus in Wigan town centre has been completely re-developed.

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