The Challenge of All-Day-School |VS

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The Challenge of All-Day-School |VS

A cafeteria furnished by VS: with JUMPER Air Four students' chairs, Hokkis, EcoTable school tables, Puzzle free-form table and M-Table and M-Bench cheek tables and benches

The Challenge of All-Day School

All-day school? It should be much more than mere childcare until 3 or 4 o’clock. Although this idea has become established, rooms and furniture are not always geared up for offering pupils an exciting environment for many different activities. Imagination is needed in older buildings in particular to make the existing rooms fit for a school that, above all else, is a place for learning and living.

A cafeteria furnished by VS: with JUMPER Air Four students' chairs, Hokkis, EcoTable school tables, Puzzle free-form table and M-Table and M-Bench cheek tables and benches

The Challenge of All-Day School

All-day school? It should be much more than mere childcare until 3 or 4 o’clock. Although this idea has become established, rooms and furniture are not always geared up for offering pupils an exciting environment for many different activities. Imagination is needed in older buildings in particular to make the existing rooms fit for a school that, above all else, is a place for learning and living.

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A multifaceted learning environment by VS for an all-day school: with seating elements from the Lounge and Shift+ Landscape series, the Puzzle free-form table and PantoSwing-LuPo pupil chairs
Here, we want to show you how flexible furniture  and multifunctional room concepts can positively change schools. So that all-day schooling isn’t a stopgap, but an opportunity to redesign and improve schools for everyone.

All-Day School: What is it actually?

All-day schooling is about looking after pupils in the primary stage and secondary stage I for longer than is the case in standard schools, which usually end before lunch.

  • In compulsory all-day schools, lessons and leisure time are linked rhythmically, the children are provided with a hot lunch, often stay until 4 or 5 o’clock and attendance is mandatory.

  • By contrast, attendance at open all-day schools is voluntary. Compulsory education is largely in the mornings; after a communal lunch, there is usually supervised homework and a leisure offering.

Unlike an after-school care centre, all-day schools have a comprehensive educational mandate and don’t just offer childcare in the afternoons.