Architecture
The first step is understanding the architecture of THS. At its time of construction was innovative and a lot of those principles around community and inclusion are highly valid today.
THS a history of innovation
This photo is of what is now Ku Ring Gai High School, but started its life as Turramurra High School, which was then built shortly after using the same architectural principles.
Extract from Designing Australian schools ...
"Innovations in school master planning took place within the NSW Government Architect’s Office c.1962-5, with Michael Dysart’s doughnut shaped classroom blocks grouped around a large central space, an acknowledgement not of progressive pedagogy as such but that the external environment of the school might shift the emphasis from the classroom interior, hence spaces such as courtyards, niches and open ‘squares’ as places of learning and socialisation."