Newbury Primary School

​We have completed Newbury Primary School​, formerly Craigieburn North West Primary School. It opened for the 2017 school year to serve rapidly growing residential areas.

​The school will accommodate up to 475 students, and has been designed in partnership with local education leaders and the community.

It adds to a range of community facilities in its precinct location, including the Newbury Child and Community Facility and adjacent sports reserve.​​

Facilities

We built the school with flexible learning areas to support contemporary teaching practices.

The central Resource/Project centre supports specialist curriculum in STEM and digital technologies. This centre includes:

• a digital media lab for video production,
• a student kitchen to support activities around health and diet,
• and Arts, IT and Science areas.

A stand-alone building houses the school's competition grade netball/basketball hall. It also includes music facilities, and a kitchen for OSHC and community use. The hall and hardcourt areas are available for the local community use outside school hours.

We landscaped around a central plaza that links with the Newbury Community Facility. Incorporating a dry creek bed in the design filters stormwater. This ensures the school can handle intense rain without flooding on the site. The creek bed feeds into a wetland on the school grounds. This provides environmental learning opportunities.

Other areas in the landscaping include:

• a junior cricket and football playing field,
• an adventure playground,
• and a native woodland with a 'camping' area for outdoor learning.

The building design incorporates a number of environmental initiatives. Rainwater is collected and reused for toilet flushing and garden irrigation in the kitchen garden​.​

We helped build an accessible playground and sensory garden. The playground includes facilities for climbing, sliding and hanging play, as well as a noughts and crosses board and music panels. The sensory garden provides a quiet, calming space with outdoor seating.