Photos: A preview of the new Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School

August 10, 2018

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Photos: A preview of the new Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School — Classroom furniture is designed to encourage collaboration (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)

Hord Caplan Macht architects gave a tour of the almost-completed Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School to media, ACPS staff and city staff on Thursday.

The school is on track to open the first day of school in less than a month on Sept. 4.

Construction workers work on the skywalk from Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School’s third floor to the parking garage next door (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
The media center on the fourth floor is set up with flexible seating, fun surfaces, enclosed small group study areas and an open-form classroom setup in the back (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
Flexible furniture in the media center, like the stools pictured above, were chosen to encourage collaboration and to serve multiple purposes (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
Architect Katie Sanders of Hord Coplan Macht gives a hard hat tour of the new school to ACPS staff, city staff and media (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
A furnished hallway nook will provide teachers students more spaces for flexible use (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
Ferdinand T. Day’s new principal, Rachael Dischner (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
A second grade classroom (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
A flex classroom on the fourth floor is designed to serve multiple purposes for the STEM-focused school (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
A fourth grade classroom (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
Classroom furniture is designed to encourage collaboration (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
A first grade classroom. Each grade level has a designated color incorporated into the walls and floor tiles of hallways and classrooms (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
Kindergarten and first grade will have private restrooms within each classroom (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
The hallway leading from kindergarten to first grade on the second floor (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
Another collaborative hallway area on the second floor (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
The ceiling in the cafeteria (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
The cafeteria seating area on the first floor (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
The kitchen is located off of the cafeteria (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)
Construction workers install floorboards in the gymnasium (Photo Credit: Missy Schrott)

Photos: A preview of the new Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School

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