This document outlines the importance of school facilities and design principles. It discusses how the school building can help realize educational objectives and influence student health, personality, and achievement. The document also covers essential considerations for a school's location, area requirements, ventilation, maintenance, and traffic flow. It provides recommendations for classroom shape, size, lighting, ventilation, and flooring. Finally, it lists basic components that a school should have like an assembly hall, library, playground, and staff quarters.

1. SCHOOL PLANT
• “ we shape our buildings in the beginning ;
and ultimately they shape us.” Winston
churchill

2. Importance of school plant
• Realisation of educational objectives
• Integral part of learning environment
• Influence on health and personality
• Influence on achievement

3. Principles
• Adequacy
• Safety and well being
• Co-ordinates
• Efficiency and unity
• Beauty
• Flexibility

4. Essentials
• Location and site of the school building :- surroundings,
level, direction, shape , service conditions, scope for
future expansion , soil
• Area requirement :- type of school, strength of school ,
courses of study , physical feature of the space
• Ventilation and humidity
• Maintenance of school campus
• Guard against building hazards
• Traffic in building
• Decoration of campus

5. Classroom equipments and optimum
utilisation
• Shape of classroom :- diagonal shape , semi-circle
shape , l-shape classroom , hexagonal
classroom , rectangular classroom
• Size of the classroom
• The lighting
• The ventilation
• The floor

6. Basic components
• Assembly hall
• Library
• The school farm
• The school playground
• School gymnasium
• School dispensary
• Exhibition hall
• Craft room
• Staff room
• School tuck-shop
• School hostel
• Staff quarters