What would you think of a primary school that...

[Closetlibrarian]

... had hardly any of the children’s work displayed on walls/ in classrooms, but otherwise seemed great?

Need to move schools (DC currently Y1) as moving house. Looked at the nearest school, which has places, which seemed really great and ticked all our boxes. Apart from hardly having any work on display? At DC’s current school there’s stuff on display everywhere- art work, photos of the kids doing stuff, learning journey-related stuff, etc...

How much is not much? Where I am from it’s normal to have one/max two projects up at a time on pin boards but no more. DC school have one pin board for whole department stuff and then maybe one or two projects up in the classroom. It’s not much in that is doesn’t take up much space but they have lots of stuff on the walls already so putting up any more would be ott.

It will depend on the headteacher's latest scheme. It's no reflection at all on the care that teachers give or the skill that they have in teaching.

For me, changing a display that isn’t directly supporting learning is one job too many. My school has a classroom for learning, corridor for display policy which is good. It really isn’t something I’d use as a basis for deciding if a school is good or not.

Any display space I have, I tend to use to best support learning. I have working walls where there are prompts, challenges, problems. They don’t look particularly great, but the children are well trained in using them.
There’s one celebration board which is updated almost daily for above and beyond work. That’s above and beyond each particular child’s usual standard.
It’s not beautifully mounted or laminated because it’s changed so often.

In short, the display space is used to support learning. It’s not wallpaper.

I looked round a new school the other day, and they were saying they could only have displays behind glass in the corridors due to fire restrictions (the building is mainly constructed out of wood)

There is a school near me where the walls are used to trumpet the SLT's achievements. Not a mention of any of the children. It pretty much sums up their attitude.

The wall spaces in my classroom are all related to learning apart from a designated space where I put pictures the children give me.

If it's a new building that is not owned by the school and maintained by a company they may not be allowed to display work.

At my previous workplace we were told we weren't allowed to put any work on the walls as it can damage the paintwork and can pull plaster/paint off, which costs money to fix.

Do they have any display boards anywhere?

The company who owned our school said that! We laughed and ignored them.

The school where I work expects and insists that display boards in classrooms are used as 'working walls'to support learning. The corridor displays are used to display work relating to previous learning and are xhanged/updated every half term.
Some schools I've seen have amazing displays that are left in place for ages, others have fewer, but less complicated displays that are changed more often.
Good displays take a long while to put up. It takes our entire team of TAs a couple of days to prepare and execute all our new displays each half term. That's tome we can't be with the children. Personally, I'd rather the displays not so amazing and that the children did not lose out on their support.

I'd be pleased. IMO there is too much on classroom walls. Interestingly enough when there was an explosion of posters and signs in my workplace people stopped reading them. I think too much on walls is over stimulating.