Education
CHOOSE FIXED OR MOBILE SHELVING for your SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, and UNIVERSITIES
School Design and Custom Shelving for your Learning Spaces
When it comes to school storage, every detail matters.
Schools, colleges, and libraries must organize their spaces so that everything — books, educational materials, or digital equipment — is accessible, secure, and well-organized.
Our school shelving systems (school shelving systems) and our shelving for schools are designed to optimize every square meter while providing a functional and inspiring learning environment.
The Aetnastak® storage system, whether fixed or mobile, evolves with your needs. Beyond books, it accommodates digital tablets, educational games, and learning tools, while maximizing the flexibility and durability of your installations.
Do you wish to create a reading nook or an open study area without partitioning the space? Hybria Curve shelving allows you to define collaboration zones while maintaining user comfort, brightness, and safety.
And for very busy school spaces, our SafeAisle® electric storage system offers a mobile school shelving solution (mobile library shelving) at the cutting edge of technology. It allows for maximizing storage capacity while ensuring optimal safety for students and staff.
👉 Groupe SOMR supports educational institutions throughout much of Quebec in creating modern, organized, and evolving learning spaces.
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The Importance of School Storage
School storage is essential for the management and organization of a primary school, secondary school, college, or university.
It allows for storing educational materials and school supplies in a safe and structured space, while fostering an effective learning environment.
School shelving (school shelving) helps to protect fragile textbooks, notebooks, and items from damage, while shelves for schools and modular cabinets extend the lifespan of materials.
By keeping school supplies in a dedicated space, you ensure quick access, better organization, and savings in time and money.
Mobile school shelving (mobile school shelving systems) or fixed shelving helps to keep classrooms, school libraries, and study areas tidy and secure.
Each institution thus benefits from storage adapted to its needs and better space management (optimized storage for education).
Storage in a Primary School
A well-ordered classroom is important not only for the comfort and well-being of its occupants but also to allow children to progress in acquiring their autonomy.
Not only will students be able to easily find what they are looking for, retrieve their materials, and put them away themselves after use, but they will also acquire a learning method.
From kindergarten, students learn, sooner or later, to participate by tidying up (their photo, their name, their belongings, games, etc.) in defined spaces.
This task is a form of socialization, as the child learns to tidy up, like everyone else, with the goal of cooperating for the benefit of all. At the same time, this activity allows them to structure and memorize space, time, and their rational relationship with the world.
Here are some tips for tidying up and organizing your classroom in kindergarten and primary school, for the benefit of both teachers and students:
- Low furniture, to promote children’s autonomy
- Multiple storage units instead of a single one
- Store chairs and seats under tables
- Felt-tip pens and pencils: in the center of the table or hung on the wall
- Labels to identify storage baskets and boxes
- Drawer units for workshops and notebooks
- Store paintings and collages in progress
- Store classroom books in multi-functional furniture
This last tip is the most important, and with Groupe SOMR, you will be able to find exactly the shelving you are looking for.
University students all know this: academic terms can be very stressful throughout the year.
And when one feels overwhelmed, an ideal classification system helps to put one’s thoughts in order.
Researchers at Princeton University have found that clutter reduces our ability to concentrate on a task, due to being distracted by everything around us.
Clutter would thus contribute to decreasing performance and increasing stress levels.
Between classes, assignments, exams, work, and social life, it can be difficult to stay on track. The worst thing to do when feeling overwhelmed by term work is to work in a place that is not adequately organized.
To remedy this, a storage system is an aspect not to be overlooked.
The ideal storage should be designed to meet the specific needs of the university, and it must be easily accessible to all students and staff.
Furthermore, shelves must be secure and reliable to protect sensitive materials. By implementing a school storage system, universities can improve their organization while protecting their valuable resources.
Here are some tips to help you maintain this good habit:
- Methodically separate your items
- Organize one space at a time
- Stay structured daily
- Know how to say goodbye to unnecessary things
A Groupe SOMR Solution for Libraries
School library classification is essential for easily finding books and documents.
At Groupe SOMR, we offer several library shelving solutions (library shelving systems).
If you are looking for a flexible and attractive storage solution, the Hybria modular shelving system is the ideal choice.
It combines the space-saving benefits of the SmartShelf system with the versatility of Aetnastak accessories, for optimized and durable school storage.
Hybria Curve for Schools and Universities
However, many classrooms are not equipped with adequate storage space. This can be a problem, especially when trying to create a reading or study area without creating an enclosed space.
The solution: Hybria Curve shelving.0
They will allow you to define your spaces without losing sight of the essentials: the comfort and safety of students and teachers.
With ample storage space for school materials, Hybria curved shelving is the perfect solution for any classroom.
With its circular shape, this shelving storage system will allow you to create collaboration, study, or reading areas.
By adding wheels, the Hybria Curve storage system will offer mobility and flexibility to your layout.
Its unique configuration with single or double access will showcase your books and documents in an attractive and accessible way.
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