Mace school project picks up two more awards
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Mace has been recognised once more for its work on the Three Ways Special School in Somerset, winning 'Project of the Year' and 'Value' project at the South West Built Environment Awards 2008.
Three Ways is a much needed special school serving children with a wide range of learning difficulties between 2 and 19 years of age. The school is at the forefront of intelligent educational building practice - with facilities to support the standard national curriculum as well as a hydrotherapy pool and a sensory theatre providing alternative learning methods and stimulation for students with limited mobility.
The building enshrines sustainability and energy efficiency throughout and is acoustically designed to provide a calming environment that supports the particular needs of the students.
Headteacher Julie Dyer commented that:
"We've created an amazing learning environment that enables all our pupils to access learning at a level appropriate to their need... the attention to delivering the acoustics, daylight and comfortable environment has already helped the behaviour and concentration of our pupils and therefore made the teachers lives easier."
The project was shortlisted in four categories overall, 'Integration & Collaborative Working', 'Innovation', ‘Value' and ‘Project of the Year', and won in the latter two. Scott Tacchi and Mike Gray collected the two awards on behalf of Mace.
The school also won a British Council for School Environments (BCSE) ‘Inspiring Design' award in March 2008.
More about Three Ways School.
