Kingsland Primary School

The new Primary and Nursery school is located on a prominent gateway site on the edge of Peebles. The building design has been treated as a cluster of buildings expressing their varying functions and are generally domestic in scale creating an environment that is not intimidating to small children.

Kingsland's classrooms are light and airy. Despite the fact that the structure is two storeys in places, 11 of its 15 classrooms have doors opening directly to the outside, emphasising the connection of the school to its semi-rural setting.

The front elevation of the school, which faces the road, is clad in dry stone walling, while the use of timber and white render lend a tactile, friendly quality to the building. As the site has a steep north to south fall running across it, the design strategy was to hide the bulk of the school's two-storey games hall by cutting it into the hill.