Creating great educational places and spaces
A guide to delivering effective School Master Plans
This guide offers a concise, practical, and jargon-free resource for school-based members of a project team to effectively participate with their external master plan project partners. The guide is intended to support understanding and effective collaboration between schools and their project teams as they undertake their master planning journey.
The value of a school master plan
A school's buildings and facilities are one of its most significant financial investments, with long-term educational and financial benefits if they are located, designed, and delivered well. An effective master plan can provide a school with a powerful place-based, budgetary planning resource to manage the complexity of a school’s development, and guide the long-term and cost-effective delivery of built assets to support:
- Academic ambition
- Teaching needs
- Community values.
The role and structure of the guide
A crucial role of the guide is as a conversation starter—to assist schools as they begin their master plan journey, recognising that this will be specific and individual for each school. The structure and content of the guide have been informed by collaborative discussions with both school-based and built environment professionals, supported by consideration of established research and other published resources. It is intended to provide schools with confidence by simply defining:
- What a master plan is
- Establishing its value to the school and its community
- Key characteristics of an effective master plan
- The typical steps in a master plan process.
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