Coloma Convent Girl's School
New
6th Form Centre at
Upper Shirley Road, Croydon
Coloma
Convent Girls School was founded in Croydon in 1969 and moved to its present site
in the 1960's. The Bryant Harvey Partnership was appointed by the Trustees and
Governors of the School to address some of the problems within the present School
that had arisen from an expansion in pupil numbers and to provide some additional
accommodation by relocating the enlarged Sixth Form into a new building.
The new Sixth Form Centre is a single storey steel frame structure with fully glazed external walls located within the trees to the south of the central lawn. It is a light and airy building with an overhanging aluminium roof that provides shade and protection from glare, to the teaching spaces. The Centre has a large entrance and exhibition hall, two common rooms, seven teaching spaces, an IT learning resource area and ancillary office accommodation. Siting the new building within the existing trees gives it a separate sense of identity for Sixth Formers whilst the central lawn provides an informal recreation and meeting place for the whole school.