In schools across the country walls are coming down and the shape of our classrooms are changing.
They're expanding to fit super-sized groups of students -- up to 120 in each class. The idea is multiple teachers will share roles and the classrooms will serve multiple functions at once.
Jerome Shepherd from the Ministry of Education says it's about offering a range of spaces.
"Just like a modern office -- you've got areas where you've got offices, areas where you can do quiet work," he says.
They're known as innovative learning environments, or ILEs. Schools don't have to adopt the new approach but Mr Shepard says it would be an improvement.
Research from Australia's Macquarie University found noise, disruption and distraction can cause problems in the ILEs.
But Medbury School Headteacher Peter Kay says it's about modernising and adapting.
"It's not so much the ILE it's what you do inside it. We've got this beautiful facility but our teachers will be able to have more room to do modern teaching practice."
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