Our cities and suburbs and towns are becoming increasingly frantic and frenetic, harried and hurried, but children learn best in environments that breed a calm busyness and social comfort. Within which, children from around the world and around the corner can learn, explore, build, perform, play and work in facilities that both challenge and enable them.
CAMPUS EXPANSION PLAN Within the framework of our Strategic Plan, our campus is designed for children to grow. It’s not Disney Land—it’s not artificial or staged, nor does it remove all obstacles. Our campus challenges students, promotes growth, and encourages multiplicity. To have multiple kinds of spaces, to have room to move and room to grow, to have a variety of conditions, makes us flexible and has us understand how best we learn and how best we grow.
ENROLMENT TARGET: 800 STUDENTS This represents two Junior Kindergarten classes and three classes per grade from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
CURRENT FACILITY RESTRICTIONS CLASSROOM SPACES The lack of sufficient elementary, specialty and science classrooms restricts course offerings and impedes timetabling across all grades.
DINING SPACE The size of the cafeteria requires children to eat at three different lunch times, which has a negative impact on class schedules and social activities.
ADMINISTRATIVE SPACE The current Administrative offices are insufficient and decentralized. They also occupy spaces that will be better used by students when moved.
FINE ARTS SPACES Visual arts, music, and theatre are integral parts of our program and the current facilities eliminate our ability to expand these areas.
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LOOKING AHEAD Over the next ten years, with your support, we will take Meadowridge School to the next level. Developing further our experiential learning experience, embracing internationalism and interculturalism through both formal and informal curricula. We invite you to be involved every step of the way.
BUILDING CAPACITY
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Meadowridge School has grown a lot in the past ten years, but we still have some growing to do. As we grow, new opportunities arise; students have more courses to choose from, clubs and sports teams to join, and peers (from all around the world) to make friends with. As we grow, learning becomes more individual and varied, yet the student experience becomes more social. And as we grow, it's important to maintain what matters. Our community is one that continues to notice and know each child.
ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE
GREAT HALL
MEADOWRIDGE CAMPUS
ATHLETIC CENTRE
LIBRARY EXPANSION
LAND
RECREATION ARENA
FINE ARTS BUILDING
The potential purchases of land around Meadowridge allows us to continue our narrative through new physical buildings and outdoor spaces.
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People are drawn to our school from around the world. In the spirit of active collaboration with teachers, peers and our community we learn how to care for ourselves and for others. Through outstanding teaching, programmes and facilities, Meadowridge develops in us the confidence not only to meet the future, but also to create it.
WHY NOW? It’s simple: we want to be the best school we can for our children. Our current facilities create capacity challenges, restricting children of all grades from dining together, participating in indoor athletics and having opportunities to develop new skills and interests. By reaching close to 800 students over the next few years and expanding our facilities, we’ll be able to add course and club offerings and continue to enhance our academic programs. With Music and Geography added as Diploma Programme course options, and a growing Outdoor Experiential Ecological Education (OE3) Program, an expanded campus will bring about new and exciting opportunities for all students.
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CLASSROOM COMPLEX
DEDICATED SPACES Opened September 2019 – The classroom complex has added much-needed space for our High School students, with seven new classrooms, two science labs, a student lounge, and loft. With high ceilings, an open floorplan, and floor-to-ceiling windows, the complex carries the bright, open design of our school forward, while providing dedicated spaces for senior students. Distinctly warm and inviting, with spaces for both collaboration and quiet contemplation, the classrooms and common spaces can support students in whatever the day may bring.
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Meadowridge School Vision To have a variety of conditions makes us flexible and has us understand how best we learn and how best we grow. We learn through experience and by doing things. We learn by exploring space and by exploring ourselves.
RECREATION ARENA
STEPS FROM THE TRAILS The addition of a recreation arena brings new opportunity across the way on our experiential north property. Steps from the trails, between our campground and barn, the arena will provide a covered space for students to meet, play and learn. Open to its surroundings yet covered, the arena will provide an additional 20,000 square feet of yearround, recreational space. Meadowridge School Vision What is a good place to play? It will have space for many children, for multiple activities to operate unparallel; it has places for individuals, pairs, and large and small groups; it exposes students to creative and natural play structures; It enables students to take perceived risks that makes them a little braver and a little more confident.
In creating buildings, we are aware that we create buildings and the buildings create us. It teaches us what it is to be a student, to be a person. Where there is room, there is room to be thoughtful of, and to learn about, others.
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GREAT HALL
9355 Young Roa Chilliwack, B.C., V2P 4S3 Tel: Fax: E-mail:
THE HEART OF OUR SCHOOL As the heart of our school, the great hall will be where we showcase, celebrate, and come together. With enough room for all, the great hall will be where friendships are formed over daily lunches and where special moments are recognized throughout the year. With a fireplace, floorto-ceiling windows, and warm, west-coast architecture, the great hall will set the tone for all events—whether a weekday lunch or weekend celebration. Meadowridge School Vision A large gathering hall is a place for all, for our PYP students, who want to show how well they sing, and dance, and play instruments; for our graduates who deserve honour at their commencement; or our parents, who want to gather for social events. If we seek harmony in our speech, our behaviour, our time, and our community, a great hall is a central building that will instill a sense of decorum, taste, collaboration, and community. When we gather, the spaces matter. We need to be able to see each other, to hear each other. We need places to sit and talk and still be comfortable. The table—lunch and dinner—is the ritual by which we share friendship, ideas, and tastes.
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ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE
REDEVELOPED SPACES Our community creates the content for children to grow intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Redeveloped spaces within the existing buildings will be key to providing space for teacher and student services. A space re-designed as an Academic Service Centre – where our school can speak with families, welcome students, meet about matters large and small, discuss and debate, collaborate and care for our children. It will create interaction, opportunities, and allow the current administrative spaces to become renewed spaces for teaching and learning.
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Meadowridge School Vision By centralizing our administration we create space, and this space creates opportunity. Our library becomes more open, and will function as a central spot near the dining hall. And by moving the library, our PYP classes have the necessary room to grow. The move creates space for everyone, providing places for parents, principals, and students to meet, but keeps us connected through shared, central spaces.
ACADEMIC SERVICES
INVITING SPACE Our new front entrance will be an open and inviting space, welcoming all that come to our school. Inside the centre you will find a warm community foyer and reception with comfortable lounge areas for casual meetings. It will also feature a gallery to showcase some of our student works, while drawing newcomers into the school. Our new Administrative Centre will house our Admissions Office and school support services, offering prospective families an easier and more inspiring beginning to their Meadowridge experience. Meadowridge School Vision The IB Continuum has special circumstances for the construction of our school. Much consideration must be put into the planning and development of our school so that the PYP, MYP, and DP have the resources required for each. And, it means that these three programmes have a shared space where we can meet. We are not just an elementary school, or a middle school, or a high school‌ we’re a Continuum school. What makes us special and what supports learning is complex teaching, spaces, and care.
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LIBRARY EXPANSION
LIBRARY EXPANSION
Meadowridge - Concept Site Plan A R C H I T E C T U R E
MEADOWRIDGE SCHOOL MASTERPLANNING 12224 - 240th Street, Maple Ridge, B.C.
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TEL: 604 | 793 | 9445 FAX: 604 | 793 | 9446 EMAIL: chp@chparchitects.com
The library serves our entire school. It’s a space that serves many students, many teachers, and many purposes: our library is a place for refuge, for reading and studying and collaborating. This beloved, bustling space has outgrown its current location and is on the move. The library expansion will provide room for added resources, books, and technologies; meeting places for classes and groups; and learning (and lounging) spaces for students across the Continuum. Meadowridge School Vision In the new library, we’ll have a place to grow: we could have more than 100 students in it at once—something not possible today. There is space for working as classes, or independently, or in small groups. Just a few years ago, our library was a small classroom with plywood shelves. The books were stacked in corners. There were no comfortable places to sit, to meet, to chat, or to think. When we rebuilt our library, the children began to flood in. Our reading corner became a place of comfort, our study tables became a place of diligent group work, and our magazine area became a place to reach out to the world. We went from circulating a few hundred books a month to a thousand. We created the space, and then the space created us.
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FINE ARTS BUILDING
TOGETHER UNDER ONE ROOF The fine arts building brings visual arts, music, and theatre together under one roof. A multi-purpose centre with purpose-built classrooms, the fine arts building will be the place for students to take risks and to reflect, to create and to evaluate. The expansion will be two stories and will include a hall for performances, a greenroom for recording, a kiln for pottery, an art gallery, and spaces to make music. Teacher Perspective “When visitors see our student work in the gallery, I am frequently asked if this is a specialized Art school. I would like to see that perception continue through our programming, through our funding, and through the quality of spaces we give to showcase them.” Rhonda Laurie, MYP/DP Art Teacher “Closing in on 20 years at Meadowridge, I feel that the theatre has always had the most profound impact on the students and families who have given themselves to the experience of being on the stage. Whether you were the toy bear in the PYP musical, Mulan in the MYP musical or Tom Collins in the school premiere of RENT, the discoveries we make on the journey are some of the most valuable you can have in life.” Rhys Clarke, MYP/DP Theatre Teacher
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ATHLETIC CENTRE
MULTI-PURPOSE ATHLETIC CENTRE Children need to grow intellectually, emotionally, and— fundamentally—physically. With the addition of a multipurpose athletic, recreation, and learning space, the new gymnasium will provide our community a much-needed resource. Spanning two stories and with wall-to-wall windows, the gym will house a full-sized court, fitness centre, student changerooms, and administrative offices. Meadowridge School Vision Well-designed gyms should allow us to play basketball and to dance, to play volleyball and to climb, to run and to meditate. It should allow for the range of human motion and emotion for the body. Having multiple, open spaces where children can engage in a wide variety of physical activity allows them to develop their physical sense, to become better emotionally, and be able to be more focused intellectually. We understand that the body is intimately linked with the health, intelligence, and emotions of children.
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We are committed to experiential learning as a way to integrate the learning of the head, heart and the hands - so that children can learn to live well, with others and for others.
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WHAT THE EXPANSION HELPS US ACHIEVE Provides a large gathering hall that creates space for all, to dine together, gather for rituals and celebrations of achievements and a place to showcase students' talents. Creates creative cultural hubs, serving to inspire the entire school community. Provides space for both collaboration and quiet contemplation. Provides a welcoming environment for students, parents, staff and visitors alike to embrace and share creativity, and to explore and celebrate different ideas and cultures.
Increases Meadowridge's capacity to 800 students, adding new programs, course offerings and club selections. A multi-purpose fine arts building will be a place for students to take risks and to reflect, to create and to evaluate. Provides additional well-designed gym space where children can engage in a variety of physical activity, allowing them to develop their physical sense.
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CAMPAIGN GOAL Our goal is to complete the campus expansion plan over the next 5 to 10 years. Fulfilling our intention to develop a campus, rather than a school building, congruent with our belief in the development of the intellectual, social, physical and emotional lives of students.
PHASES Expansion will occur in multiple phases. Each phase directly links to the strategic plan.
COMMITTEE A committed team of Meadowridge School parents are volunteering to help our school achieve these ambitious goals.
ATHLETIC CENTRE CLASSROOM COMPLEX LIBRARY EXPANSION ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE GREAT HALL FINE ARTS BUILDING
Looking ahead, Meadowridge School will grow its campus with the addition of new buildings and re-development of existing ones.
Meadowridge - Concept Site Plan
A R C H I T E C T U R E
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12224 - 240th Street, Maple Ridge, B.C.
SCALE JOB NO.
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9355 YOUNG ROAD CHILLIWACK, B.C. CANADA V2P 4S3 TEL: 604 | 793 | 9445 FAX: 604 | 793 | 9446 EMAIL: chp@chparchitects.com
Our vision will be brought to life through our Strategic Plan coupled with a large multi-year fundraising campaign. Each strategy will contain sections of our story that will be written along with you. Through your input, support and action, you will help guide and achieve our goals to create not only an excellent educational institution, but a strong community literally built on a common ground. Please join us in making our audacious vision come true. Developing students who are audacious in their pursuits, grounded in their values, and unbound in their potential.
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OUR MISSION
Learning to live well, with others and for others, in a just community.
OUR VISION
People are drawn to our school from around the world. In the spirit of active collaboration with teachers, peers, and our community, we learn how to care for ourselves and for others. Knowing that change is the only certainty, we engage with challenging and complex questions effectively and creatively. Through outstanding teaching, programs, and facilities, Meadowridge develops in us the confidence not only to meet the future, but also to create it.
Fortune Favours The Bold. The Audacity Campaign.
To get involved, find out more or make a donation, speak with our Development Team. Phone: 604.467.4444 Email: development@meadowridge.bc.ca www.meadowridge.bc.ca