The modern school today has to not only offer space for conventional teaching but also be open to many innovations. It is necessary to integrate computers in classrooms, create free-time or quiet areas in the school building and organise premises for lunchtime catering. This calls for a separation into different areas which in turn must be put to versatile use. And also homework supervision and pupils’ team activities require space. Space which is simply not available in many schools. This calls for great flexibility: the existing premises must be configured to suit the new requirements – and the furniture should be flexible enough to support the most varied activities.

VS offers such furniture, which fits seamlessly into the modern school. Furniture for intensive working and communication, for learning and practising and for rest and relaxation. This furniture achieves primarily one thing: maximum flexibility. This enables the school to demonstrate the versatility that modern forms of teaching call for. This is the furniture for the schools of today. And tomorrow.

All forms of statics are physiologically straining. Our muscles only have a limited ability to complete one-sided work. For this reason, it is not static but much rather dynamic sitting that is called for in school. 

Correct sitting in school is active-dynamic sitting – as is made possible by the PantoMove school chair. This ensures continuous alternation between physiological strain and strain relief of all the muscles, tendons and ligaments, intervertebral discs and vertebrae that take part in the sitting posture. The circulation is also stimulated in this way. The upshot of this is that when pupils are sitting correctly, they are not least also more able to concentrate and thus more capable and productive.

For more than 100 years VS – founded back in 1898 as Vereinigte Schulbankfabriken (United School Desk Factories) – has featured in the market with ergonomically superior furniture. Even in the early days school desks were already marketed with varied functions such as, for instance, tilt and height adjustment. VS offers a wide range of innovative, ergonomically pioneering school furniture, such as the Ergo infinitely height-adjustable school desk/table.

Networked teaching becomes a reality with the Series 600 LapTop module. The cabinet is fully electrified and provides spaces for 16 pupils’ laptops and one teacher’s laptop with storage battery and mouse. Further devices can be placed on the cabinet and can be wired through the back of the body.

The telling feature is that all the computers are connected via the module not only to the power-supply system but also to the integrated radio network. In this way, they can be centrally configured by the teacher. During teaching the pupils have access with their laptops at all times to the Internet by wireless LAN or they can access the server. The Series 600 LapTop module is fitted with castors and can therefore be moved easily between different classrooms.

Experts in industrial medicine are calling for more movement not just in the office but also in school – in other words a natural balance of movements between sitting and standing while working. People who move can think more clearly. A working day should therefore be balanced out between sitting, standing and moving.

It is therefore also necessary to plan work surfaces at standing height. The best solution here is a height-adjustable teacher’s workstation which comfortably supports a change of posture between sitting and standing. VS offers a modern, height-adjustable table in the form of RondoLift. This enables the teacher to work while both sitting and standing. In this way, the RondoLift supports the ergonomically vital alternation between working postures. It can be swiftly adapted to any individual requirement by means of its infinite gas-strut height adjustment. The ideal chair to accompany this table is the PantoMove height-adjustable swivel chair.

The RondoLift features a lockable drawer under its oval table top. Here the teacher can safely and securely store teaching materials. However, the RondoLift is not only an ergonomic teacher’s workstation; it can also be used by pupils, for instance, for group work. As a standing or sitting table. Thanks to its castors, the RondoLift is extremely mobile and can be quickly pushed to wherever it is needed.