Oyster River High School

Input from staff re facility needs

MATH DEPARTMENT

• Larger rooms
• Cluster rooms
• Math lab, manipulatives, room for classroom computers, computer access, storage, modem access
• Sharing equipment with science

• Display areas

• Cafeteria, two rooms instead of one large room
• Need auditorium
• Ice Arena

ENGLISH

• Classroom opening into library (or with better access)
• Classroom for video production connected with library/computer lab/publishing center
• More sophisticated faculty work area in each department
• *Clusters of classrooms around a common space which offer storage, conference space, faculty work space
• A facility for small performances (drama and acting class, poetry, reading, lectures) and viewing of videos, movies, etc. (double-triple classroom size)
• A few seminar rooms (for small classes)
• Availability of flexible space in each department so that more than one class can meet in a space for interdisciplinary work
• Small carrel spaces for reading workshop

ART, BUSINESS, HOME ECONOMICS

• School store for marketing instruction
• Computer lab with stations in business area
• Design lab, color systems, computer system central to art, home economics
• Shared planning spaces for business, art, home economics, music
• Separation of kitchen areas from home economics instruction spaces
• Photo lab, darkroom

• Wall surfaces that can accommodate, display, notation, notices, student acknowledgments, not concrete or tile
• Display
• ATM machine -- business services

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• **Cluster of classrooms facing each other across a corridor
• Three areas between sets of two classrooms
• Computer room, electrical outlets to accommodate 12 computers
• Reference library for both print and audiovisual resources/student work

SCIENCE

• ***Cluster science classrooms together (near to industrial arts)
• Classrooms should be on south side of the building. Life science classrooms should be south-facing (growing areas) with immediate access to outdoor (external exits from classrooms)
• Common science storage area
• All classrooms clustered around a common science storage area (or internal hall access to this area from each classroom)
• *Meeting/conference room with professional library (resources)
• Two classrooms separated by a movable, soundproof screen (to allow for a larger space for guest speakers, team teaching, etc.

• Large hood and sinks for lab preparation
• Telephone, modem, and computer
• Safety eyewash and shower
• Gas, electricity, and water
• Lab area separate from class area
• Movable seats for large and small group work
• Cable access
• Two-way intercom
• Individual offices and storage room adjacent to classrooms
• Blackboards and bulletin boards from display areas

STUDENT SERVICES

• Additional office and counseling space (for itinerant professionals)
• Conference spaces, small and large
• Peer outreach room
• In-school suspension room
• Auditorium (for school and community)
• House system
• Alternative school

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Library should be easily accessible for all classrooms. If stays in same spot as is now, the mezzanine should be returned to library use as student/stacks/computer lab/storage areas and not as classrooms
• Classrooms: departments should be organized in modular manner, with rooms emptying out into a common area which could be used for student/class/staff/gathering. This area should have a department work/meeting/storage area

NURSE

• Health center for the next decade
• Easy access
• Near administrator and physical education
• Near labs and shop

PHYSICAL EDUCATION/ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT

• Two full gyms or one and a half gyms that do not serve as a hallway or thruway to the parking lot, locker rooms, and planetarium
• Gym should have two full size basketball courts with a divider (wooden) between them. Wood floor, padded walls, automated and adjustable baskets
• Multipurpose room large enough for teaching station for: volleyball, cheerleading practice, wrestling, table tennis, aerobics, dance, badminton, tai-chi, batting cage, adaptive PE. Room should be fully padded with a synthetic surface flooring, recessed lighting, PA system. Should be adjacent to main gym, weight training room, and locker rooms
• Six student locker rooms
• Coaches/officials locker rooms (two)
• Office space in gym/locker room area
• Training room large enough for two trainers and six student trainers. Storage area with cabinets, hot and cold water with deep sink, adequate heat and illumination, telephone system, computer, whirlpool, hydrocalator
• Classroom for athletics, CPR and first aid classes, video with cable access), testing, lectures, team meetings
• Weight room large enough for Universal style machine, free weights, and other machines. Floor should be carpeted or padded, water available, illuminated, heated and properly vented
• Pool for use by PE and athletics as well as community during non-school use hours. (UNH availability is more limited and more expensive each year. We are bottom of totem pole for use because we pay less.)
• Track fully equipped and lighted, around soccer field
• Tennis courts, double amount of courts from three to six. Water fountain available
• Storage building on fields between baseball, softball, and soccer area. Phone, electricity and water
• Field for PE use only with: Archery area, golfing area, croquet, beach volleyball, horseshoe pits
• At least one more soccer-size field to allow a field to "lie at rest" for a season occasionally, and for future use in lacrosse
• Second baseball field with infield cut at 60 feet so it can double as softball field
• Other wishes: Lights for soccer, baseball, and softball fields; complete irrigation system for all fields; paved or stone dust access road to all fields; baseball and softball dugouts; and outdoor batting cage frame

MATH DEPARTMENT

• Replace lockers
• New traffic patterns
• Small, informal gathering places for students

STUDENT SERVICES

• Expanded and centralized space for student services
• Inviting, clean, well maintained public entrance/reception area
• Student lounge, comfortable group room
• Carpeted space/less stress -- plants, bells, smaller spaces
• Wider corridors, additional lockers
• Core hub centralized, maybe two story
• School store
• No bells
• More lockers, smaller units, different configurations

ENGLISH

• Student gathering space
• Windows and window seats
• Small gathering spaces for students throughout building
• Accommodation of lockers in a way that they didn't clog up traffic patterns
• Dishwasher in kitchen (do away with styrofoam)
• Carpeted classrooms (1/2 - 2/3) & l/3 - 1/2 tile floor
• Think beauty of surrounding!!
• Hidden smoke alarms in bathrooms

ART, BUSINESS, HOME ECONOMICS

• Large public area

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Faculty room needs to be central and bigger and adjacent to outside (doors)
• A less annoying bell system, especially during lunchtime
• Student gathering areas, including a large area and some smaller areas, distributed around the school. This would include an area that is outside, but not muddy
• Cafeteria needs access to the outside area where they are allowed to eat; seating should be different types, round tables of differing sizes and chairs that move; the cafeteria should be a nice gathering sport and not an auditorium

MATH

• Screens in windows, windows that open
• Room darkening capability
• Roofs that don't leak
• Way to improve current lighting in each room (not enough. outlets); students cannot see chalkboard due to the glare, but if there were drapes to close the ventilation is poor
• Movable desks to group in small and large groups
• Hot water, more outlets
• Lockable storage (built-in)
• Still need board space
• Conference room phone

NURSE

• Hot water
• Have secure storage
• Handicapped bathroom
• Privacy
• Handicapped ramps

STUDENT SERVICES

• Career and college materials in one area
• Elevator access
• Storage space
• Security/doors/storage
• Bathrooms in each classroom
• Adequate parking space with well designated visitor and handicapped places
• Ventilation system
• Intercome, phone system in all rooms
• Windows or skylight in all rooms
• Air conditioning
• Centralized vacuuming system
• Security for storage and records
• Scantron cards computerized for new way system to do attendance and discipline
• Handicap ram, bathrooms

ENGLISH

• Built in storage and bookshelves in classrooms
• Handicap accessibility
• Some rearrangement of bathrooms so that there are more of them, smaller (so they don't become congregating places) and located for better supervision (e.g., spaces between classrooms, etc.)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• More electrical outlets in classrooms
• More windows, with shades and screens
• Lighting other than fluorescent
• Projection screens in all classrooms
• More storage/display space in each classroom, such as book shelves
• Cable access in each classroom
• Ceiling fans
• Telephone cluster areas

SCIENCE

• Classrooms with: bathrooms, two-way intercom, windows/screens/room darkeners

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Bathroom should have hot water and be adequately ventilated; there should be more of them; there should be facilities for washing hands and drinking water and rest room use in each classroom
• Classrooms should be placed in such a way that cross-ventilation is made possible by opening windows and doors

Last update on 31-Mar-99 at 10:08 PM.

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