Gretton School in Cambridgeshire is a day and residential school for students between the ages of 5 – 19 with a diagnosis of Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. It is part of the Cavendish Education Group.
‘Safe, attractive and easy to maintain’
The school were planning a refurbishment project and approached Tough Furniture to assist with this.
As Head Teacher Beth Elkins explains: “We know we are making an investment in something that will last the school a long time and give the students the learning environment they deserve – safe, attractive and easy to maintain – so their classrooms always look fabulous.”
Furniture ordered
After looking at what Tough Furniture could offer for both the classroom and other less formal rooms, the school selected a number of furniture items to enhance the overall learning environment but still stand up to the rigours of classroom life.
These included:
- Workstations providing an enclosed and distraction-reducing workspace
- Lockable Tray Storage Units
- Heavy Duty Tables
- A range of End and Centre Units, which can be configured to provide various sizes of sofas
- Bean Bags
- Classroom chairs
Long-standing specialists
For nearly 30 years, Tough Furniture have been pioneering the design and manufacture of furniture for challenging environments. They are aptly described as specialists for the simple reason that they don’t make furniture for any other context.
From day one, the focus has been on refining the right balance of robustness and security with a non-institutional look that helps to create genuinely safe and welcoming spaces in even the most challenging areas of mental health and learning disabilities provision.
Tough Furniture’s winning formula of highly-engineered, durable furniture with an attractive appearance has been applied to the challenges of special education.
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