Master Plan Workshop
Great learning environments don't happen by chance - they are planned
A school's buildings and facilities are among its most significant long-term investments. This workshop helps school leaders understand the value of a Master Plan as a strategic framework to guide campus development and ensure investments support academic ambition, teaching needs, and community values.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the purpose and value of a Master Plan
Understand a Master Plan as a long-term strategic planning framework that links educational vision, campus development and investment decisions over time. - Link educational intent to spatial and investment outcomes
Articulate how vision, principles and educational priorities translate into built form, site organisation, staging logic and funding priorities. - Recognise the risks of reactive or ad-hoc development
Identify the long-term spatial, financial and educational consequences of uncoordinated decisions, and understand how a Master Plan can help manage the risk. - Apply the structured stages and inputs of effective Master Planning
Understand the key components of preparation, vision setting, options testing, stakeholder engagement, prioritisation and staging - including the roles of boards, leadership, consultants and funders. - Use the Master Plan as a living decision-making framework
Confidently interpret and reference the Master Plan to guide project briefs, staging decisions, funding submissions and future adaptation as school needs evolve.
ISQ and QIS BGA are excited to announce the Master Plan Workshop. Part of the 2026-2027 Workshop Series.
To complete the full workshop, full attendance at both sessions is required, with the cost charged for session one covering the complete workshop. Please register separately for each.
Part 1 - Friday 1 May