Welcome to Stage Systems

Client: Ilford County High School

 

The brief:

 

Ilford County High School is an all boys Grammar School, it has music and performance placed high on the agenda, illustrating flair for song and drama throughout the years, so a successful career on the stage could be waiting just around the corner.

 

However, stardom could spring from a multitude of talents, if the school’s background, facilities and academic achievements are anything to go by.   The school has a history of high academic success, from students, staff, the community and the school itself. The Ofsted inspection of this year classed the school as “Outstanding” and recent developments within the school have vastly improved the facilities, with a brand new sports hall, which led to an inspirational conversion of the old gym into a new Learning Resource Centre.

 

The Learning Resource Centre offers fantastic new amenities to suit academics and thespians alike!  The new Centre has been planned with new technologies and designed to generate creativity, through space, facilities and specifically allocated areas.

 

The end result:

 

The Learning Resource Centre is at the heart of teaching and learning at the school and has an IT classroom with laptop facilities and an Internet Bar area. The mezzanine floor stands over the staging area is for 6th Form study and has laptops available for study use and a large collection of reference books.

 

The stage is used at the centre of the facility for various functions. The raised performance area is a modular design, therefore can be constructed and reconstructed in a variety of formats, levels and sizes, and maintaining complete strength throughout.  The stage design is an original from Stage Systems. Q-Build staging is a complete system encompassing a flat or multi-level stage, steps, carpet and hand rails integrating simple construction in next to no time.  

 

Since music flourishes at the school, the stage will be used for an array of musical performances. The schools quartets, jazz band and choir meet on a regular basis and perform many music recitals.

 

What they said:

 

The official opening of the Learning Resource Centre will saw the new facility and in particular the stage being used in an alternative way. Chris Ryan, famed for his service in the SAS together with his successful writing career, Chris is the perfect example of triumphant survival, speaking at the ceremony to inspire the boys to perform to their very best ability, and make the best use of their surroundings: this amazing new facility. 

 

The school should be very proud of the Centre. They should be particularly proud as it was all self funded; making it a truly personal project.  It is a fresh inspirational space, with the very best in facilities and real asset to the school and the surrounding community, proving that old establishments are a great place for amazing new concepts and superb forward thinking.