Wednesday Afternoon | January 25, 2023
2:00 – 3 :00 PM
Rosthern Community School
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Rosthern Community School is a new facility uniting two existing schools in the Town of Rosthern through the development of a new Pre-K to Grade 12 replacement school and child care facility.
From the onset, it was evident that one of the major success criteria for this new facility would be a thoughtful approach to joining the distinct cultures of the existing Elementary and High School. Given a student entering Pre-Kindergarten could be spending 13 years in this facility it was also important to find a way to convey a sense of progression and achieving milestones as they progressed through their education.
This goal had to be balanced with the somewhat contradictory goal of creating a school community for the combined school. The motto ‘Separate but Together’ was taken on to direct our approach and led to a design in which three distinct wings were created: an Elementary, Middle, and High School. The design allows students to experience a sense of progression as they move into new wings of the school. These wings are arrayed around the ‘Heart of the School’. This Heart is a hub of activity that brings the whole school community together around large, open, two storey volume comprised of the Student Commons, Presentation Stair and Learning Resource Commons.
Wednesday Afternoon | January 25, 2023
4:00 – 4:45 PM
Peter Ballantyne Child & Family Services Theraputic Centre
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Directions: Prince Albert No. 461, Saskatchewan, S0J 3H0, Canada
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This facility was conceived by the PBCFSI to bring
home children in care with special needs who
were currently being housed and schooled in other
facilities around the province in a delivery model that
would enhance all aspects of their traditional culture.
The facility consists of 8-150 sq.m. residential housing
units with 4 individual bedrooms each, incorporating
a family visiting unit, accessible bedrooms and
special needs. The main facility building of 1,053
sq.m. consists of administrative offices, community
meeting room, commercial kitchen, cafeteria,
games room, 2 classrooms and a mini gymnasium.
As the facility is in a rural area a maintenance
support building of 195 sq.m. houses 3 service bays
and water holding tanks for potable water. There is
also an underground holding tank which supports the fire suppression for the main building sprinkler system.