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CREATING A VIBRANT LEARNING SPACE �he L�b�a�� �n� Learning Common�

Like many spaces in our school, built in the 1990's, the library was created as a dedicated space for books and silent reading, built only large enough for one class at a time. The new generation of libraries, are vibrant spaces for learning, collaboration, and research, which our students are challenged to do in the current configuration.

Expansions to our Junior School Library will connect it to the new design lab, provide much-needed additional space for collaboration, group work, and teaching, and offer comfortable seating for studying, reading, and research in open spaces filled with natural light.

CHEERING ON OUR KIDS �eno�a�ions �o �enior �c�oo� ����e�ics �aci�i�ies

While the number of teams, activities, and sports has increased in the Senior School’s athletics program, the facilities have remained the same. Our current change rooms are small, without enough private changing areas, showers, or space to store personal belongings. When outside teams visit the school, they meet in the cramped change rooms, on the court, or on the sidelines of the field. Due to a lack of storage space, the physical education department is limited in the new games and sports it can offer. If a sport requires equipment that must be stored, we are currently unable to offer it, thereby limiting our students' choices and the offerings in our physical education program.

The new plan calls for expanded change rooms with gender-neutral options, new team rooms, equipment storage, and showers and change rooms for faculty. Better positioned physical education office spaces will also be built, so that teachers can easily monitor students who are in the gym throughout the day.

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