The classroom in the sky will be provided by the J. Safra Group, and will teach national curriculum topics to 20,000 London state school pupils.
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The thought of double maths can make some people queasy, imagine what it would be like on top of a skyscraper with see-through floors?
Teachers in London may find it a little bit more challenging to keep their pupils from daydreaming in the future, after developers of the proposed Tulip skyscraper announced plans for a classroom 1,000 feet in the sky.
The classroom in the sky will be provided by the J. Safra Group, and will teach national curriculum topics to 20,000 London state school pupils.
In the state of the art facilities pupils will engage with innovative tools to learn about the capitals history in what the developers hope will be a world first.
However, some educators are not quite as ecstatic about The Tulip’s approach to education as its developers are. Mandy Headsley the head of history at Tetherdown Primary School in Haringey believes projects like this whilst well-meaning often don’t achieve their desired effects.
Speaking to City News Mrs Headsley said: “Why would being on top of a skyscraper make the lesson any more stimulating? It will just distract the pupils, and who can blame them? If we want to teach our pupils about London’s amazing history then there’s no substitute for taking them to these places. That’s what we should be doing more of.”
If it passes the planning stage, construction on The Tulip is scheduled to begin in 2020 to be finished by 2025. The innovative design of the sky scraper will include mobile observation pods at the top of the structure which will rotate allowing a 360 degrees view of the capital.
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The thought of double maths can make some people queasy, imagine what it would be like on top of a skyscraper with see-through floors?
Teachers in London may find it a little bit more challenging to keep their pupils from daydreaming in the future, after developers of the proposed Tulip skyscraper announced plans for a classroom 1,000 feet in the sky.
The classroom in the sky will be provided by the J. Safra Group, and will teach national curriculum topics to 20,000 London state school pupils.
In the state of the art facilities pupils will engage with innovative tools to learn about the capitals history in what the developers hope will be a world first.
However, some educators are not quite as ecstatic about The Tulip’s approach to education as its developers are. Mandy Headsley the head of history at Tetherdown Primary School in Haringey believes projects like this whilst well-meaning often don’t achieve their desired effects.
Speaking to City News Mrs Headsley said: “Why would being on top of a skyscraper make the lesson any more stimulating? It will just distract the pupils, and who can blame them? If we want to teach our pupils about London’s amazing history then there’s no substitute for taking them to these places. That’s what we should be doing more of.”
If it passes the planning stage, construction on The Tulip is scheduled to begin in 2020 to be finished by 2025. The innovative design of the sky scraper will include mobile observation pods at the top of the structure which will rotate allowing a 360 degrees view of the capital.
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