The area allows teachers to create a comfortable outdoor social setting for individual and small groups of students. Teachers can plan and model social and wellbeing activities including dining and socialising in a shared space. Students can also create, construct ad play games in this space. The area can support small focussed storytelling, explicit teaching and demonstrations activities that require an exterior setting.
FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES
The location of the area to a Home Base will provide a shaded outdoor learning and social area for students and minimise the need to transport materials for learning activities. Such an area would allow teachers to create an extension of the Home Base learning settings to support more diverse learning processes including creative and construction activities.
LEARNING IMPLICATIONS
Consideration would need to be given to acoustic and spatial implications depending on the number of groups, types of learning activities planned and proximity to Home Base areas. The COLA is generally not suitable for rehearse and perform activities.
Explore ideas, share and develop opinions, debate and decide.
This learning process is effective with small to large groups provided specific criteria can be met.
Display, exchange and encounter learning artefacts.
This learning process is effective with small to very large groups provided specific criteria can be met.
Teachers and/or students demonstrate, communicate ideas and/or teach explicitly.
This learning process is effective with small to very large groups provided specific criteria can be met.
Hands on interaction, experimentation and evaluation with materials to discover, design and test.
This learning process is effective with small to very large groups provided specific criteria can be met.
Implement, build or assemble systems and media.
This learning process is effective with small to very large groups provided specific criteria can be met.
Use written, graphical and digital resources to personally reflect, consolidate and/or enquire.
This learning process is for individual or small groups and is effective provided specific criteria can be met.
Practise, refine and execute performance based activity.
This learning process is effective with small to very large groups provided specific criteria can be met.
Ratings against the Design Criteria

All criteria regarding spatial layout, fit-out, visibility and acoustics can be met.

Most criteria regarding spatial layout, fit-out, visibility and acoustics can be met. Some consideration will need to be given to determine whether constraints on ease of use, group size or materials will compromise the learning outcomes.

Few of the criteria regarding spatial layout, fit-out, visibility and acoustics can be met. A lot of consideration will need to be given to determine how the constraints on ease of use, group size or materials can be overcome.

Very few of the criteria regarding spatial layout, fit-out, visibility and acoustics can be met. This space should only be used for this learning mode as a last resort.

This space is incapable of supporting this learning mode.

This learning process is not employed with this size group.