User:Lcmortensen/New Zealand standard classroom blocks

Standard classroom blocks are classroom buildings built at New Zealand state schools between the 1930s and 1980s to standard designs. The New Zealand Department of Education and the regional education boards both designed standard classroom blocks, which evolved over time with changing education needs and building codes.

Permanent primary types

Open Air Veranda (Canterbury)

The Canterbury Open Air Veranda block was used extensively in the Canterbury region between 1934 and 1954.

Dominion

The Dominion block was the first national standard primary school plan, used between 1951 and 1955.

Avalon (Wellington)

195?-196?

Canterbury

195?-196?

Open Plan Block (Canterbury)

197?-1979

Permanent secondary types

Henderson (1950s single story)

1953-1956

Naenae (1950s two story)

1953-1956

Nelson Single Storey

1957-1959

Nelson Two Storey H-shaped

The Nelson Two Storey H-shaped (Nelson 2H) standard classroom block was an evolution of the Nelson Single Storey, and was used extensively in the 1960s and into the early 1970s.

As its name suggests, the Nelson 2H block has two stories and is H-shaped. The block has twelve classrooms, six on each floor, with two staircases at each end of the block to access the upper floor. Downstairs on one side of the block, there is a large toilet and cloak area. There is no internal access for students between the two halves of the block: students transferring between the upstairs rooms in each block needed to descend one staircase, exit the block and walk around the outside to the other end, and ascend the other staircase.

At some schools, only one half a block was built, resulting in a two-storey T shaped block with six classrooms.

S68

The first S68 standard classroom blocks were built at Porirua College in 1968 (hence the name), and was used extensively during the 1970s.

Relocatable types

Canterbury Education Board Unit System (CEBUS)

1968-?

External links

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