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Students get look at new high school tomorrow
Students will get a look at some of the new Springfield High School tomorrow.
SHS will host a schedule pick-up tomorrow and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Parents and siblings can go too but you won’t be able to see all of the school. Just the main entrance and academic wings.
At the dedication Sept. 7 everyone will be able to see all of the school — finished and clean — for the first time. This event is for the entire community and I know the district would be pleased to see a large turnout.
I went over today with the district’s communications consultant Kim Fish and News-Sun photographer Bill Lackey. We saw a lot of the building and will have a gallery of the photos up in the very near future. I’ll post a blog when we do and I’ll be doing posts every day over the next couple weeks about some of the more interesting or unique aspects of the building that I saw.
Here’s some of my first impressions from today after the jump.
Yes, the school is big. But the small schools concept is evident in the design with colors designating specific wings and the shared common areas aren’t really any bigger than most high schools would be because it’s designed for smaller groups of students to use, not all students at once.
I have to say the colors might be my favorite part. Having lots of bright colors in a school is vastly different from the schools I went to which were mostly just institutional grays and whites and yellows with a bit of school colors mixed in in some places. I’ve seen a couple buildings like that before — Lebanon’s Bowman Primary is the first that comes to mind — and I always thought it was fun because it was so different from what we typically associate with schools.
Every classroom in Springfield High School has one brightly-colored wall, painted the color of the school it is in — so the Humanities classrooms have red, the Leadership rooms are orange, the Global Perspectives rooms are purple and the Problem-Based Learning rooms are teal. The shelving and storage units and the lockers and the signs at each door are also that color.
The common areas like the media center and cafeteria are the school’s colors — blue, white and gold.
Tomorrow I’ll post a blog about some of the security and safety aspects of the new school. And I’ll be out at the high school tomorrow afternoon to talk to students and staff members so I’ll let you know what they think.
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