Opportunities for outdoor learning are embedded in all parts of the design; from large science, DT and makers courtyards on the ground level to multiple, flexible terraces on each and every level, topped with an exploratory rooftop combining science and humanities gardens, play areas and a 300m running track.

From Primary (Grades 1-5), the students are grouped into whole year clusters. Each cluster combines four Chinese Medium Learning (CML) classrooms and four immersive, flexible English Medium Learning (EML) classrooms. At the heart of every cluster is a multiuse SE21 break-out area combining a large lecture space and portable study pods, allowing teachers and students to rearrange the space to provide a dynamic and flexible learning environment necessary for 21st century learning.

Middle school teaching is clustered departmentally and pairs immersive CML and EML classrooms around flexible SE21 collaboration areas. A large SE21 hub is located on the ground floor of the building adjacent to the main lobby and paired together with the library to form the academic heart of the school. It is not itself a ‘library’ in traditional terms. Instead it’s more a cluster of collaborative and quiet spaces that are stitched into surrounding SE21 spaces, both horizontally and vertically. This allows the library to become an easily accessed resource where students can gain instant access to knowledge during enquiry based project learning.

Each and every cluster, both in primary and middle and on all levels of the school, has its own dedicated outdoor learning terraces located around two large quads. This helps to emphasise the importance of fluidity between indoor and outdoor learning; a concept that importantly formed the heart of the brief that was developed from the beginning of the project.