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Developing your School Grounds.
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A place to grow - unlocking the potential of your school grounds.
The aim of school grounds are not only as a foundation for play but also to delight, inspire, inform and educate. We aim to help schools transform their school grounds into exciting, diverse and welcoming green spaces, full of adventure with the opportunities for creative learning, playing and growing.

With a landscape architect and teachers on the team we are able to provide a landscape concept plan providing the foundation for the phased development of your school grounds.

We work with staff and pupils to help:
1. design your school grounds providing many stimulating examples of what can be achieved
2. develop your school grounds, identifying appropriate projects for each age group
3. discover the opportunities your school grounds offer through workshops and training.

Even the most seemingly featureless playgrounds, where both space and budgets are limited, can be transformed into
exciting and stimulating areas for children to both learn and play.

Ideas include:
Earth pizza ovens, herb spirals, vegetable gardens, murals, living willow sculptures, mazes and domes, edible hedges, forest gardens, musical / recycled gardens, story telling areas, outdoor classrooms and theatre, compost heaps and wormeries, sculptures and habitat creation, wildlife towers, dividing up large open spaces, tackling edges, fences and boundaries, sensory tactile planters, seating, forest school fire circles and corners to talk secrets.



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children planting a tyre
 

quote - All the governors and staff were delighted with the mix of field work activities you led in the grounds as well as the inspiring plans. It was a most valuable experience for the whole school team. Class teacher, Alphington School.

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