Pedare Christian College Stage 1 – New Junior and Middle School

Golden Grove based Pedare Christian College has undertaken an ambitious move to combine their Junior and Middle/ Senior School campuses onto a single site on Surrey Farm Drive. This project necessitated the relocation of the Middle School to make way for new Junior School buildings. It is part of a larger master-plan which will see the entire school refined and redeveloped.

Pedare has taken this opportunity to integrate current thinking around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) into a STEM- centric middle school building a prime educational space, as well as a showcase for the school. The flexibility demanded by such a programme has also heavily influenced the new Junior School buildings.

A gymnasium has been added to the campus, accessible by all school levels, incorporating basketball, netball, volleyball and badminton, with provision also for hiring to large sporting and non-sporting groups.

The landscape design is expansive, incorporating age-appropriate playgrounds, entrance treatments, soft and hard -play areas and a redeveloped northern car-park and kiss’n’drop.

The two cultures of the separate schools, until now geographically separated also have been brought together. The blending of these cultures has also very much influenced the arrangement and form of the new buildings.