improved learning environment our current school is close to being over phone with high school students and many classrooms are shared by teachers the new bigger broader ng will accommodate for more students the new school will be located where the rowing host country club was on east lake mary road it is being designed by his design group and along with the new boating there will be improved technology made accessible for education there will be ample space for learning as well as an expanded gym library and auditorium this state of the art school will be a great space for high school students to be able to learn and grow according to the asked see the organization costume environment is one of the most important factors affecting student learning a positive environment is one in which students feel a sense of belonging trust others and they're encouraged to talk with challenges take risks and ask questions the new environment of a school may have a more positive influence and push students to want to come to asking how would you say building and the high school is going to be a benefit firstly that education there are a lot of ways i think the place where we're starting we're not dealing with the renovation and asking how do we make changes to fit certain things we're starting with and new we're planning for fifty years from now so that the core features of design were around flexible spaces and want to use spaces we don't know what it's going to look like and they have thirty years from now so what we want to do is make sure that our spaces again are flexible enough that we're going to be able to grow into whatever the future has to hold for our children then what types of new technology will students have access to so again this was something we also had to put a lot of thought into because the technology is changing so quickly we did not want to just invest in if we made decisions right now in three years these technologies might be obsolete and we invested heavily in terms of infrastructure you want to stay away from fixed technology  and put a lot of thought in a lot of our investment into again running the fiber running and making sure that we have enough outlets though all of those things that we know that this building will be able to withstand the technology changes over the next  twenty thirty forty years from how are they planning to use the old high school of them right now after the board right now is undergoing a couple work sessions and what do we do with the rest of our building stock we know that are in rome and over the next ten years from believe it or not we are moments projected to decline as a community we're growing but a lot of these people are moving in our community are active retirees not families with certainly fine to use and i don't want to get ahead of the board do you think about more going on from how you said they are tired people are coming and do you feel like having the new school bell will make families want to come in to offer regardless of our buildings i think it can be an additive traction but truthfully i think that our reputation in our children and your hard work and speaks for itself in terms of drawing families and i don't see a a lot of you know a big rush to come in but it would be nice if that with the expanded space are they going to hire more teachers to fill all the classrooms so right now or sharing classrooms so i think we probably will need to hire a lot more teachers to fill the classroom so then what we're doing is just now giving teachers their individual classrooms and that was again writing thirteen classrooms and that i think that's important we shouldn't have teachers moving from classroom to classroom a new building will certainly accommodate  so it will be a lot of things will be bigger space will also though be designed to be more collaborative and more flexible with a lot more of a large group instruction area so that it could be used by mall to move across multiple departments department one of things that we wanted they wanted to be closer to technology they also wanted to have indoor outdoor space so a lot of those things were a little common in the new the new building so you're department will have larger classrooms higher ceilings access to outdoor space i was on their wish   so that's really to be determined based on the needs you said that students were not like in the outdoor space too is that going to be a they going to be able to eat lunch out there or anything i like a college feel with the new cafeteria do you think school lunches are going to like improve it all in terms of like health and stuff that i don't know i think that we will we're putting in the amenities to have that happen  kitchen equipment to have that happen everybody's been very very thoughtful in terms you know we have fliers do we want to have a coffee bar what are all the things that we want to build in and then will again every year we put out requests for food service and  service vendors can change over time but will certainly have the balance that they need to bring high quality tasty food to the cafeteria with the school safety they're going to be more police patrolling  and and protection and likely not i think we because we have we are able to build the building knew we were able to design it in a way that we could very clearly  zone the building to in terms of private spaces where we might only have students very limited access to public spaces and semi public spaces so a lot of those safety measures are going into the new building from you know from walks t house vestibules how the building works so we likely will not be putting in more and more people it's just built into the building in terms of a smart building in terms of technology so would you say as the building that it would be a little bit very mindful of who gets in our buildings keeping people who we don't want in our buildings out i will say that will be much easier to monitor in terms of because of the zones we're able to just shut down an entire wing and how would be the academic when we're not we're having very limited access in the western classrooms new parking lot it's big more things going to be able to get parking spaces like lower class and that again that will be administrative decision i do know that we've put a ton of time into parking because it's not ideal  here we separated out student parking visitor parking staff parking have multiple ways in and out so that was one thing that we wanted to make sure that we don't end up with the same kind of traffic issues that we have now that we cause two times a day on the merrier well the attendance and that kind of routine be the same as far as i know yes i mean we're going to eventually we're going to be staring at the other side of that you know two hundred acres is going to be a wonderful park and i'm hoping we don't we're not competing with children going to all the amenities on the park and not being in school but we'll deal with that when that happens and what prompted to build a new school right now so the boarding gauges on long term facilities planning and what that means is that we look at all of our buildings and figure out over the next five years in ten years how much money what are the big projects that we have to undergo terms of new roofs new h e s c and this current high school when we looked at that it was a really big bill and so that's the time we were we want to stop and say you know we know that we have to put a new roof new age v a c and new windows is it currently meeting our academic needs and that's why we went through the whole the whole decision around we want to just renovate or do a new building and spend probably the good seven months trying to answer that question so it was a combination of just our routine going through our district facilities planning as well as realizing it's an opportunity to improve the educational spaces here but also to do with some of the financial conditions interest rates were low all time low we had very favorable borrowing it was just a fortunate coming together of a lot of positive events well thank you so much for joining us and i think that's all the time we have for questions and we'll be right back after the break with you guys thank you thank you month construction project which is start of in july and this past july so the completion of that project then is set for october twenty twenty now that's provided the project stays on schedule nine sometimes due to weather or other unforeseen conditions that could delay things but right now the target is off to a bit of twenty twenty to be completed ok so is it plan that being twenty twenty one class will be able  with twenty two kids and when you say the twenty twenty one thousand that graduating cost them graduating twenty twenty one we assume so far with that schedule that they would be the first graduating class in bring up a couple boards to help me describe how this is going to be organized so the school will have a sensually three wings have a academic wing which is the bottom of the plan it will have a fine arts wing where the auditorium will be and music and band rooms and then it will have the athletic swings with the poor in the gym and all the auxiliary gyms and locker rooms and such  those are the that's the big picture on how this is organized basically by those three wings and you'll come in you know you come in from the park the parking lots will be a period come in appear and then you'll have some of the the  administrative areas will be up in the front of the school and then you work your way down to the bottom which will have the academic wing central centralized around a learning commons area that we can get we'll get into more in some way or other follow up questions come right into a corner and you can go up and down go levels and then he can also go into the three windows and are thinking about this today how all of our staircases most of them don't need to the basement or all the staircases lead to every level yes yes it is long as there is a level below it to lead to these ones at the corners will go through all three floors and then the these this one here just goes the first and second floor because that the upper in the middle floor because there is no lower level below this point so if there is a floor below it goes to all the floors you don't have to travel across the building to go down one floor like you now good how will parking be macquarie roads even further down here off the board and center charges up this side off the pages well these roads around the perimeter here are kind of internal to the high school you'll be able to drive once you're in in the high school parking lot you'll be able to drive around the high school but all the parking is at the top of the site behind the building so that's why we have this is we're in the same way the four plans are now that's where you'll come into the building so all the parking is up on top now what we did with the parking in the site circulation we gave this a lot of thought we wanted to separate the students circulation from boston and from parent drop off site now it's first washing all over the place so we have student parking which is all over here ray from that access road will be able to come in to this is going to be called the bus plaza that's where all the buses parked when they're picking up in the afternoon but they'll also be able to a lot of drop off area in between the this is the staff parking lot and this loop actually for the parent drop off will come in and then go back out so they have their own kind of circulation loop as well so i hope that answers your question is for to think about traffic along with maria road as well right right now because of the high schools so closely located to the murray road i think there are a lot of congestion is there's no lights out there and it's just sometimes there's light but that has to go through a lot of approvals to get that done if that happens the will actually be a red and green light that will be helping traffic flow more easily down there and then into the site so there will be that backup on mcmurry road as much saying so you're coming in you're going back out it does circulate you go around it each one of these has a kind of it's in and out there i believe there is a connection through here to get out this way in case of urgency but this r here is also kind of an access road so there's you multiple ways the high school lot although if you're in this particular parking lot yes all these cars are going out of these two a one source here so yes if you were everyone got on the court the same time you'd have to wait a little while but it's going to follow you're not waiting there's not a lot of traffic here so we believe that the flows going to move pretty quickly and then i think that's something that the you know the students in the administration thought it may be troublesome for the first week and it always is as we go school until you figure out how the circulation works best and i think that this is going to be much improved over whichever term yesterday we  building all stall visitors will come through the front of the building that's where the main office will be that's where they'll get a badge in and it'll be different where you won't have kids going through the main lobby to go to some other spaces that's one that's one big thing right off the bat is a secure entrance that will be monitored all the time there's other there are other security things that they were added into the project like notification systems that can as well to to maximize security in the building and there's also significant amount of security cameras throughout throughout the entire building thank you and me going back to the good design plan fake how many architects like i feel like we're going to and like architects but that's not all staff and then you have graduate architects that were involved so we're probably in between the architectural firms had a dozen or more people working on it then we outside of that we had seven professional consultants involved whether you have specialist whether it's for heating and air conditioning systems or for fire suppression or for food service there's a there's a lot of them for who scored design structural design but within we had all those people and they have probably a staff of five or large portion of our firm's work is k through twelve work but yeah we do other building types we do all we focus mostly on institutional type work but we do religious in this fall into small commercial and i think that's actually all the time we have for questions so just to wrap up the new building will be a great new opportunity for students of peter sonship and a way to push the curriculum here in our  that with the expanded facilities and positive learning environment students for generations to come i'm sure will be excited to have experience of learning in this new high school our architects have done amazing job of designing it and our school district hord lot of time and effort into making sure it's the right space for peter students to grow up the right space can make a world of difference in students education and the district is excited to introduce the new space in the next few years thank you so much for joining us and we hope that this interview has answered some of your questions about the new school make sure to check up check out the new episode of the edge and if you have any more questions you can contact the school district for more have a great day peter