The Education (Information as to Provision of Education) (England) Regulations 1994

7.  For the purposes of Part II of this Schedule—

(a) “general teaching space” means teaching space other than teaching space of the kinds described in (b), (d) and (f) below;

(b) “heavy practical and large teaching space” includes—

(i) teaching space used or available mainly for the purposes of teaching any one or more of the following—

• workshop crafts, cookery, drama, dance and

(ii) includes teaching space in any assembly hall and library;

(c) “light crafts” includes pottery and print making;

(d) “light practical teaching space” includes—

(i) teaching space used or available mainly for the purposes of teaching any one or more of the following—

• art, sculpture, light crafts, needlecraft, fabrics and textiles, technical drawing and design, music, business studies, commerce, typing, computer studies and

(ii) includes teaching space in any science or language laboratory;

(e) “projectile room” includes a room used for the purposes of any of the following—

• archery, gun or rifle shooting, golf, bowls and cricket;

(f) “sports and physical education teaching space” includes teaching space in any sports hall, gymnasium, projectile room, squash court, indoor swimming pool, or any room used for weight or fitness training or both;

(g) “teaching space” means any area in the school in question used or available for teaching or study, or both, for all or part of the school day, but excluding the following—

(i) any room or other area constructed, adapted or equipped for the storage of apparatus, equipment or materials used in teaching;

(ii) any part of any area in the school which is required for the movement of pupils through that area and which is used wholly or mainly for that purpose;

(iii) in the case of the area of any gymnasium, sports hall or indoor swimming pool, any area, in terms of square metres of floor area, in excess of a floor area of 240 square metres save that, where the floor area of any gymnasium, sports hall or indoor swimming pool is equal to, or greater than, a multiple of 240 square metres, the area equal to that multiple or, where greater than a multiple, rounded down to the nearest multiple, is to be included as teaching space;

(iv) in the case of any area partly used for social, dining or careers advice purposes and any area used other than by the school during any part of the school day, the proportion of that area, in terms of square metres of floor area, equal to the proportion of the school day for which the area is not available for teaching, rounded down to the nearest whole number; and

(h) “workshop crafts” includes craft design and technology, woodwork, metalwork and engineering.