ABSTRACT
Reference has already been made in describing the administrative and technical changes which took place in the 1950s and 1960s to the influence of new educational ideas on school design. From the educational point of view, one is grateful that the priority given to educational developments resulted in more schools being built which enabled an improved kind of primary education to be carried on and, in many cases, encouraged innovation in teaching methods. The chief education officer during this period was Sir Alec Clegg, who wrote that the main advantage of the middle school was that ‘it presents a way of achieving comprehensive education which avoids the necessity for the very large school’. The new developments in primary-school design were received cautiously by the majority of English teachers. The school as built provided forty nursery places and 280 places for children aged from five to eleven, later to be extended to twelve.
