00:04Hi I'm Georgia and I'm from Storway. Hi I'm Callie and I'm from Tane. I don't know it's just not
00:11the same with what we were in. Also there's no doors. It smells different there's no doors and there's going
00:18to be a lot of new people. Also the colours. It's very big so it's hard to find my way
00:25around the place. I hope I don't get lost.
00:30I probably won't always be with a teacher because you have to get the fobs to go through the places.
00:35So to have a primary school where we've got access to drama studios and gymnasiums and you know the things
00:41that you would historically just associate with a secondary school.
00:45It's great that our children from the age of three in the nursery are getting excited about having spaces that
00:51they can use like that.
00:53It's been so lovely as well to see children from the current primary schools. There are two primary schools in
00:58Tane currently that are closing to become Tane primary.
01:02It's been great to see how everyone is committed to helping the children get to know each other in quite
01:08a short period of time.
01:09And of course many of them already know each other outside of school. And those two buildings, those two schools
01:17are inside everyone in Tane's heart.
01:20You know because like yourself many people that live here have attended them as children.
01:24And I hope that we're creating something that in generations to come will also equally be within people's hearts.
01:30Like meeting new people and making new friends and stuff.
01:37Gym. Gym and just like learning in the new classroom. And then you like supplies and stuff like that.
01:44And also the same as Callie, just learning new things.
01:48That's a hole. A hole there.
01:51And what do you make of that layout? Do you like it?
01:55I don't know. Because in our class, there's blow dryers right in front of our holes.
02:03I think I like it. But like if one class is really loud, you're not going to be able to
02:09like pay attention or anything.
02:12We're going to get distracted.
02:13Also, the first time we're in our class with that hole there, any time someone's to a blow dryer, we'll
02:18be like, please quiet down.
02:22Because like it's that and then see where that is or it's going to be blow dryers right there.
02:26And where the Gallic Department is, there's a hole in the ceiling.
02:30So like all the high school people are going to be up there.
02:34And it's like high school people.
02:36Open plan. This is kind of open plan.
02:43Open plan is a model that's been around for a long, long time.
02:47And some local authorities adopt it. Some don't.
02:49I've worked myself as a teacher in a completely open plan school, which was one, just one huge room.
02:55And all the classes in different corners of the same big room.
02:58And it does bring challenges because there are noise levels.
03:02But actually, you do find that you acclimatize to those things.
03:06So you do tune into our teacher's voice.
03:08And it's just about getting used to a new building.
03:11I do know that this building has been specifically built with the idea of no doors around the Passive House.
03:17But a lot of the cladding and things inside is sound absorbing.
03:21And so we're sat right now in the canteen.
03:23And my background is in performing arts.
03:26So when I was in the building on my own first, I thought I would test the acoustic of this
03:30massive space.
03:31And you would expect it to echo for quite a while.
03:34But pretty quickly, the sound stops because of the way the building's being designed and built.
03:40So that will help with the sound.
03:43Kind of getting used to seeing other people around the building where you might have a door in the past.
03:50I found personally that when I've worked in the open plant, you acclimatize to that.
03:55It's just something that we're not used to.
03:57And for some of our pupils, they will struggle.
04:00But of course, our staff are around.
04:02The level of staffing we have and the risk assessments and things like that that we'll put in place will
04:06help us to aid those children to get used to that kind of way of working.
04:11So it's good because we get a new football pitch, like you said, because our one has muddy holes and
04:15we're actually not allowed it on the moment because of the mud.
04:19But I do like football, but we don't get to play.
04:22We act on the concrete and I honestly don't like being on the concrete.
04:25In case we trip, we can get a car.
04:28So it's not good.
04:29But now we have new ones.
04:31I'm not complaining.
04:32When the boys play on our pitch, they just come into the classroom and they're mud.
04:36Full of mud.
04:38The eye.
04:38Like, it's all.
04:40You have mud.
04:41You fell.
04:42Yeah, I tripped over the chain.
04:44I hope that everybody gets along with each other and there's no arguing.
04:48And that holes, the paint on it doesn't rip off in like a week because our paint marks are everywhere
04:56and I just hope it won't get all like that.
05:00I just hope, same, everyone gets along and that the boys don't make holes in anything.
05:09They are bad for that, to be fair.
05:11Yeah.
05:12Yeah, I think they are.
05:13Yeah.
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