Whistling men in yellow vans, they came and drew us diagrams; showed us how it all worked out and wrote it down, in case of doubt (The Housemartins)

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Currently, we are chewing over plans for a remodeling of the senior school's Learning Centre and staff workroom.

This part - meetings about what staff want, meetings with the architect and trust members around what the budget allows, considering which ideas from the architect work best and so on, is always a slightly unnerving experience, as decisions eventually need to be made with compromises just part of the process.

At such times, I am reminded of the maxim from Velocity that no good joke survives a committee of six. Basically the  point being that, in education, schools who want to improve, who want to make a gear change from great to outstanding, can't do so via consensus.

One of the joys of working at OneSchool Global is an acceptance that we need to make the best kind of decision at the time. We also learn from the past.

A frustration in some campuses is some cost compromise on acoustics. That has made me very aware of the need in our remodeling for ceiling tiles and wall coverings (including insulation) that absorb the sound of 60 teenagers. 

The bottom line: I can confidently predict that the planning/decision making process will be a relatively short one. In the meantime - consultation!