Recently Trish Miller entered our school in a contest regarding Innovative Learning.Two staff members from Catholic Education attended the presentation in Singapore. The exciting news was we received an award. This is amazing considering the number of projects that were entered and no limit on the costings. For example one was $45m ours buildings just over $1m.So this is great for our school (students) , the parish, and the diocese. Read what Trish herself says of the award.
Father Michael
“The Award Peter Byrne and I won in Singapore was a Commendation Award at the Australasian Association for Learning Environments in the Innovation Category and related to our project (the whole project being our new 5/6 area and 3/4 area). It involved demonstrating the role that our innovatively designed buildings play in the role of educating our students and the new ideas used within our process that inform the field of educational facility planning and design.
Other entrants in the Category included projects worth almost $50 million.
This Award relates to the whole building process (both builds) and the innovative change to learning and teaching led by the school’s development of an Educational Philosophy that led to the first building (5/6 area) design, then the measurement of the success of the philosophy two years later (3/4 area) which led to the second design using the ideas and styles similar to the first design, thus transforming Sacred Heart’s Learning Spaces completely within four years. It also focuses on the high level of community consultation used in the process.” Trish Miller
