Creative Seating for Schools & Libraries

Your school library or an open corridor can be a great break-out area where students can explore on their own terms. Create a space where your pupils are both motivated and comfortable by exploring new seating options; kids love sitting on the floor or making dens so why not give them the creative environments they love?  Some of the world's largest business corporations such as Virgin, Google and Sony have invested in refreshing, lively office spaces using beanbags and trendy interior design because their staff enjoy working in these environments and so they are happier and more productive.

Top Ten Tips for Great School Displays

1. Design for the 21st Century - make your displays relevant to students’ experiences and use modern graphics
2. Keep it simple - don’t fill your display with too many facts, faced with a board full of text students are less likely to look at all
3. Ask questions - get your students to think more about the display by adding 3 or 4 questions
4. Use quality resources - if you are searching images on Google to use in your display, always select ‘Large’ in the Search tools option; poor quality graphics will undermine your work.
5. Keep it big - use a large font size so that your information can be read at a distance and by people on the move
6. Keep changing - once students are familiar with a display it becomes ‘invisible’ so make sure you keep your room looking fresh by updating on a regular basis
7. Think outside the box - use portable boards to use open spaces for your display, or ask your local library if you can display a project there
8. Enhance - place a table infront of your display with relevant books and items of interest or samples of previous work
9. Key Words - reinforce learning by adding key words to your display, use a variety of colours and font styles for these words, it will help visual learners to remember them
10. Review - ask your students if they liked the display, whether it motivated them and if they learned from it; use their feedback to improve in the future!

For more information or to download our guide to educational displays check out our website: http://www.graphix-direct.co.uk