Our physical space is designed to allow interactions between all classrooms and community space. Our students can view what’s going on outside of their classroom and our parents can observe classroom work and activities. During open play our students can often move freely between the rooms fostering mixed age play where our little ones can gain a higher level of understanding from their older peers and our older students can learn empathy and understanding of the younger students, furthering real life social interactions. We incorporate natural materials into our classrooms as much as possible, allowing the children the opportunity to work with items from nature every day and ‘real life’ items within the classroom replace plastic ‘made-for-kids’ materials.