Sneak a look inside the labs of St Ambrose High in Scotland

By Deborah van Wyk2023-04-03T09:38:00

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Where collaborative teaching and some lab-sharing calls for lots of organisation

Want to see inside another secondary school’s chemistry labs? Then you’ve come to the right place. Take a sneaky look inside the teaching spaces of St Ambrose High in North Lanarkshire. It’s based just outside Glasgow and has 10 new labs, shared between departments, to provide for its large school community. Discover how Megan has created a cohesive and organised working space to make the most of having shared teaching spaces.

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