Milltimber Primary School
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Summary
Constructing a new school for a growing community
Robertson constructed a new primary school with integrated early years provision for the growing Milltimber community and Aberdeen City Council.
Aberdeen City Council's brief to architects Scott Brownrigg was for a new state-of-the-art school, a two-stream facility providing a modern, congenial, healthy, learning and working environment for the primary and pre-school community.
New school in a new location for a growing community
Situated six miles to the south west of Aberdeen, the new purpose-built Milltimber Primary School ensures that pupils living in the growing catchment area can continue to attend their local primary school with other children from their community.
The former primary school was operating at almost full capacity with a school role of 253 pupils and had been forecast to rise to 342 by 2023.
In addition, to meet the new targets for early years places, it had been estimated that 60 full-time places would be needed to be provided for the community, an increase of 20 on their capacity at the time.
The new two-stream facility provides capacity for 434 pupils, delivering high quality Early Learning and Childcare services, offering wide and flexible learning opportunites, and allows pupils and staff to benefit from new, modern and efficient teaching facilities.
Robertson was delighted to be working with Aberdeen Council on this project and partners having delivered many awards winning school projects in Perthshire, Dundee and Angus.
150,695
square foot site
14
classrooms
4
learning plazas
Modern and healthy learning environment
The new site provides enhanced outdoor play spaces and PE facilities to promote health, fitness and wellbeing, as well as better opportunities for outdoor curricular learning and social interaction, leading to improved mental health.
The new outdoor learning space allows children to learn about food production and planting their own crops and a selection of fruit trees forms a small orchard.
This is designed bring keys areas of the Curriculum for Excellence to life across many topics including healthy eating, food and environmental awareness.
Supporting children
The increased facilities within the building also enables the school to make use of a variety of spaces and approaches to support children who require a greater level of personalisation to meet their additional support needs.
