Our outreach activities include primary school workshops, design and build summer projects in Indonesia and constructing new facilities in Zambia.

High-school children from across South Wales, setting out plans to set-up camp on Mars

Welsh School of Architecture Workshops

Workshops for local primary and secondary schools to give pupils an overview of architecture as a subject and profession.

Children and women clustered around a model of a neighbourhood

Shape My Street Competition

The Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) run an annual Shape My Street competition. The competition has been designed to introduce young learners to ideas about home, place and community.

Group of students building a paper structure

Welsh Baccalaureate support from the Welsh School of Architecture

A series of teaching and learning materials introducing architecture to assist in the delivery of the Welsh Baccalaureate Challenges and the development of the Individual Project.

A wooden house for insects

Architecture Resource Pack

A resource pack focusing on introducing architecture and linking to themes studied in the curriculum. The materials are fun and easy to use within the classroom.

Resources

To support the aims of this project, undergraduate students from the School, with support from the University’s Schools Partnership Project and WJEC have developed a series of free teaching and learning resources.

These include worksheets, step-by-step lesson tasks and PowerPoint presentations to introduce architecture through the Primary and Welsh Baccalaureate curriculum.

Resources for primary schools

Resources for secondary and further education schools and colleges