Birmingham, B29 4EE
Green Meadow Primary School
Green Meadow Primary School New VR Suite
Green Meadow Primary School is a proud member of Excelsior Multi-Academy Trust.
Excelsior Multi-Academy Trust is made up of seven schools: six located in the Birmingham area—four in the southern part of the city and two in the central area—and one school in Dudley. The trust takes pride in their family of schools and are dedicated to ensuring that each one serves as a beacon of excellence and support for the communities they are part of.
Green Meadow School is dedicated to promoting British values by integrating them into daily learning and school activities. The school consistently demonstrates how its work upholds these values and firmly challenges any pupils, staff, visitors, or parents who express views that contradict them.
The school’s mission is to foster an environment where pupils feel happy, safe, and supported in becoming successful, independent learners who achieve their full potential.
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Green Meadow takes pride in being an inclusive community, where every individual is welcomed, respected, and valued member.
The Brief
In October 2022, Innova was approached by the IT Technician from the Multi-Academy Trust to create a Virtual Reality (VR) Suite for Greenwood Primary School in Birmingham, marking Innova’s first project of this kind in a primary school setting.
After a thorough site visit by an Innova team member, who conducted a detailed survey including Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) assessments of the existing space and captured the full client brief, Innova’s designer began work on developing an innovative layout for the new VR room.
Innova’s full turnkey services included
• A full ripout
• Floor trench for electrical services
• New carpet flooring
• Electrical works including install of LED strip lights throughout the room and sockets/data sockets for the desking as per the design
• Every wall to be cladded, to deliver the immersive experience
It looks incredible and will further enhance our exciting curriculum. The possibilities will be endless - children will be able to explore places they have never been to in geography lessons, shoot through space in science and travel back in time in history without leaving school!
TEACHER , GREEN MEADOW PRIMARY SCHOOL
The solution
The design was developed to a futuristic clean white space, with fully integrated colour changing strip lights recessed into Innova’s unique wall cladding system, creating inspiring learning zones around the room. In total four zones were created, providing the teaching staff flexibility to adjust the lighting levels and colours.
Innova’s unique bespoke wall clad system, with removable panels and service ducts delivers the perfect solution for the immersive experience, retaining the rooms natural light as well as the air conditioning system.
Straight perimeter fixed benching and central desking with white laminate worktops and ergonomic seating creates the ideal environment for pupils to get started in their futuristic lessons.
Excelsior MAT is dedicated to providing the best possible opportunities for its pupils and is now pioneering the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in primary education with a state-of-the-art VR Suite at Green Meadow Primary School— the first of its kind in any primary school in England.
Equipped with cutting-edge technology tailored for students aged 5-11, the VR Suite features HP Z1 computers, HP Reverb VR headsets, and curriculum-integrated software designed to enhance both teaching and learning. The IT department is currently collaborating with teaching staff to coordinate lesson plans and develop innovative VR-based lessons, further supporting the school’s educational mission and benefiting the wider community.
Turnkey services
- Demolition & Strip Out
- Minor Building Works
- New Flooring Installation
- Electrical Works
- Decoration
The pupils and staff cannot believe the incredible transformation of their previous music room. The new VR technology will be used alongside traditional methods of teaching, Maths, English, Geography, Art, Music, History, Science to pupils from the age of 5 to 11.
Working closely with the IT Team, Green Meadow Primary school’s dream has become a reality, not only is this the first VR room in any primary school in England, the state-of-the-art technology, will help to enhance their curriculum even more and they can’t wait to get started!
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