Rooms Guide

Newton Price Centre Theatre Studio

Newton Price Centre Dance Studio

Newton Price Centre Exhibition Gallery

Newton Price Centre Internet & Communications Technology Room

Newton Price Centre Arts Room

Newton Price Centre Kitchen

Central Primary School Main Hall

Central Primary School Dining Hall

Room Sizes and other information

Newton Price Centre Theatre Studio

We have invested over £10,000 in converting this room into a theatre studio, through laying specialist "Harlequin" flooring throughout the room and by installing special curtain rails and black serge curtaining, which creates the effect of actually being on stage in a large theatre.

The room is available for theatre studies and other groups to hire.   We have had Yugioh contests held in the room and bands have used the studio to record music. Puppet shows for children's parties have been staged in the room and we have had Salsa Dance groups practice here on Saturday afternoons.

 

Michael Davies holds Tai Chi training session in the studio on Saturday mornings. 

 

Movement Academy will start holding tap-dancing classes in the studio from Tuesday, 4^th March 2008.

Esprit Yoga have used the studio for yoga sessions and Guideposts Trust hold Relaxation sessions here too. Ballet lessons and examinations are held in the room. “Picking Up Sticks” drumming lessons are held in the studio by Lawrence Farrelly.  Watford Camera Club use the studio for photographic sessions. A highly multi-purpose and multi-functional room.

 

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Newton Price Centre Dance Studio

This room is equipped with sprung wooden flooring, ballet barres and wall mirrors to ensure that dance groups find it ideal for practicing dance routines. One complete wall has been mirrored.

Regular users of this room include iDance Studios [Ballet, Popping and Locking, Hip Hop and  Jazz Dance], Culture Shock, Dawn Harvey's Belly Dancing Group. Esprit Yoga have used the room for baby-yoga sessions. Salsa rehearsal sessions are also held regularly in the studio.

The Dance Studio is usually where children's parties are held, as they can run about and make lots of noise and wear themselves out without parents having to worry about them!

 

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Newton Price Centre Exhibition Gallery

We currently run an exhibition programme for new artists with the Watford Area Arts Forum. Tracked halogen spotlighting has also been installed so that individual pictures or other works of art can be highlighted during exhibitions.   The room size is 7 metres by 4.6 metres and there are 4 white display boards available, measuring 1.8 by 1.9 metres, 2.1 by 1.9 metres, 3.6 by 1.9 metres and 3.5 by 1.9 metres.
The room is used for meetings by local groups of up to 25 people. The Gallery is routinely used for focus group meetings and by opinion research/polling organisations. Esprit Yoga hold birthing-yoga sessions in the Gallery on a quarterly basis.  SGI (UK) (a Buddhist organisation) meet here monthly.

 

Watford Life Club hold weekly life-coaching sessions in the Gallery on Thursday evenings.  Watford Friends of the Earth and Watford Camera Club hold monthly meetings in the Art Gallery. Watford Area Arts Forum Executive Committee use the rooms for their 6-weekly meetings.

Mind in South West Herts have run weekly creative writing courses in the room, with organisations such as Pegasus Health & Safety, Early Years Training and Education Child Protection also using the room for training purposes.

 

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Newton Price Centre Internet & Communications Technology Room

This room has been converted into an ICT suite, with 10 PC work stations, each equipped with a modern TFT flat-screen monitor. Each computer is connected to a laser printer for hard copies.
A computer-linked projector has been installed in the suite for tutors to use.

Mind in South West Herts have used the suite to train their clients in the use of computers and to gain access to healthcare information on the internet.  Hertfordshire County Council's Adult Care Services Division also use the facilities in this room for training their client groups.

 

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Newton Price Centre Arts Room

Conveniently located next to the Kitchen, this room tends to be used for a wide variety of activities. It can accommodate up to 15 people and is currently used for meetings of small local voluntary groups, such as PF Watford Moot's monthly meeting on the last Thursday of each month.

Daniela Izera holds Spanish Language classes in Room 6 on Wednesday evenings. Central Primary School's Parents-Staff Association meet in this room from time-to-time. Mind in South West Herts runs an arts and crafts session each Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

 

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Newton Price Centre Kitchen

The kitchen has a 4-ring cooking hob and extractor fan, two kettles, an urn, a microwave, and a fridge freezer. There is a fire escape exit door leading outside from the kitchen and we have had a ramp installed with a guide rail so that disabled persons can vacate the building from the kitchen, as an alternative escape route to the ramped access front door of the building.

 

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Central Primary School Main Hall

The internal size of the Main Hall is 13 by 11.5 metres (42.5 by 37.5 feet) which equates to 150 square metres or 1600 square feet.  We arrange bookings for the Hall, which accommodates up to 200 people, depending on the numbers of tables, chairs, etc. which might be needed.

The Hall has been hired by large dancing groups and performance groups. IDance Studios hold Ballet, B-Boy (Break Dance) and Teen Hip Hop classes in the Main Hall.

 

We also have classes in Tae Kwon-Do, Kick Boxing and Kung Fu held in this hall.  Wembley International Christian Church hold meetings in the hall on Saturday evenings and their main service on Sunday mornings. Elim Church of Pentecost hold Sunday morning church service meetings in the School Hall, which has also been hired for Ramadan celebrations by local Muslim groups and Claire Ward MP has held a coffee morning in the hall.

 

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Central Primary School Dining Hall

The internal size of the Dining Hall is 14 by 6 metres (45 by 20 feet) which equates to 84 square metres or 900 square feet.  We arrange bookings for the Hall, which can accommodate up to 100 people, depending on the numbers of tables, chairs, etc. which might be needed.

Idance Studios/Culture Shock hold Adult and Advanced Hip Hop, Jazz Dance and Hip Hop classes and rehearsals in the Dining Hall, which is also occasionally hired for medium- to large-sized group activities and parties. 

 

We have had christening parties held in the Dining Hall.

 

 

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Room Sizes and other information

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