LIGHT INDUSTRY

摘要

With a change of government in the UK last year came a significant change in attitude to design and, specifically, to the design of schools. Finding political distance from the (albeit relatively) pro-design Labour position that the Tony Blair years established coincided neatly with the back to basics, there-was-nothing-wrong-with-my-chalk-and-talk-education stance of the Conservatives. Almost overnight the school-building bubble burst, with aspirations cut even deeper than the funding of the transformational new schools programme. And so it is that already, after only a year of standing, the Sandal Magna Community Primary School feels redolent of another, bygone era. For this small, provincial one-form-entry primary school for 236 local three- to 11-year-olds wears design ambition on its sleeve.