Newbury Primary School

We have completed Newbury Primary School , formerly Craigieburn North West Primary School. It opened for the 2017 school year to serve rapidly growing residential areas.

The school will accommodate up to 475 students, and has been designed in partnership with local education leaders and the community.

It adds to a range of community facilities in its precinct location, including the Newbury Child and Community Facility and adjacent sports reserve.

Facilities

We built the school with flexible learning areas to support contemporary teaching practices.

The central Resource/Project centre supports specialist curriculum in STEM and digital technologies. This centre includes:

• a digital media lab for video production,
• a student kitchen to support activities around health and diet,
• and Arts, IT and Science areas.

A stand-alone building houses the school's competition grade netball/basketball hall. It also includes music facilities, and a kitchen for OSHC and community use. The hall and hardcourt areas are available for the local community use outside school hours.

We landscaped around a central plaza that links with the Newbury Community Facility. Incorporating a dry creek bed in the design filters stormwater. This ensures the school can handle intense rain without flooding on the site. The creek bed feeds into a wetland on the school grounds. This provides environmental learning opportunities.

Other areas in the landscaping include:

• a junior cricket and football playing field,
• an adventure playground,
• and a native woodland with a 'camping' area for outdoor learning.

The building design incorporates a number of environmental initiatives. Rainwater is collected and reused for toilet flushing and garden irrigation in the kitchen garden .

We helped build an accessible playground and sensory garden. The playground includes facilities for climbing, sliding and hanging play, as well as a noughts and crosses board and music panels. The sensory garden provides a quiet, calming space with outdoor seating.