General Introduction to Project

Chatelherault Primary School is a single stream primary school with a nursery and a 24 place Special Education Needs Unit (SEN).

This school replaces a much-loved but dilapidated 1960s school on the same steeply sloping site. The new school was constructed in the playground while the original school continued to operate until June 2006.

While the school was being constructed, the children undertook workshops to design and make ceramic artworks for the new building.

This school was selected as a case study as it is located at the heart of a housing development and is used by the community. It builds upon lessons learned from the construction of earlier, successful primary schools in the same council area, such as St Brides RC Primary (also included as a case study). These schools are extremely successful and have been built by South Lanarkshire as part of a 'Partnering Agreement' between the council and the same architect and main contractor team. The council's architecture team took the scheme to concept stage in consultation with the users and then worked closely with the delivery team. The school is well-designed, makes an architectural statement and demonstrates the benefits of a high level of user consultation