At PEEC our central 'classroom' is the outdoors, the natural places we visit on each program, which include areas of Moggill Forest, Karawatha Forest, and Pullenvale Forest Park.
We also have many dedicated indoors and outdoors teaching areas onsite that students spend some time within on each program day (excluding Wander the Way of the Water, a full day traversing and learning from Karawatha forest for Year 6 students). Our on-site 'classroom' spaces include:
Mopoke lunch shed
Hosting students for our Year 1 Forest Kingdom and Year 5 Hoodwinked programs - a space to start and finish the day together, as well as for breaks.
Laidley lunch shed
Hosting students for our Year 2 Muddles and History Hunters programs and our Year 3 Mission Earth program - a space to start and finish our day together, as well as to take breaks. For our Year 4 'Bugs 'R' Us' students, it also becomes the Conference 'Bug Hub', where they can undertake independent research into insects and arthropods using our microscopes, books, and pet insects.
Arts Office covered deck
Hosting kindergarten students attending our Tulmur Outdoor Classroom day, prep students for our Ramble 'n' Play program, year 6 students visiting for our Artist in Residence programs, and educators participating in our Connected Teacher and Connected Leader professional development courses.
Arts Office
Provides space for our visiting year 6 artists to create and present their works during our Artist in Residence programs, and for some of our educator professional development sessions.
Laidley 'Theatre'
Becomes 'Mrs Muddle Up's pretend-magic room among the trees' for our Year 2 Muddles students, a 'space ship' for our Year 3 Mission Earth students, and the 'Gubon Enterprises Annual Arthropods Conference room' for our Year 4 Bugs 'R' Us students.
Old Pullenvale Schoolroom
Facilitates students 'stepping back in time' to experience what learning in an early 1900s classroom might have been like during our Year 2 History Hunters and Year 5 Hoodwinked programs.
Dayboro Cottage
Becomes 'Grandma Whittacker's special sitting space' for our Year 1 Forest Kingdom students, and our 'evidence gathering' discussion and planning space for our Year 5 Hoodwinked students.