To start creating ideas for their Architecture in Schools Competition entry, Year 5 embarked on a local walk of the Sloane Square area this week. The aim of the walk was to familiarise themselves with their surrounding buildings and to get a sense of what the area has to offer.

Activities included describing what they could see, identifying services, sharing how the square makes them feel, finding different shapes in the various facades and surfaces, and sketching some of the buildings and street views.

The girls were also encouraged to begin to dream about what the square could become. Their ideas ranged from the very practical such as adding an extra pedestrian crossing to turning the square in to a water play park with a giant slide!

We are all very much looking forward to next week’s design session to work it all out!

Miss Van Kamp