Fundraising Projects
Redevelopment of our outside space
Following feedback from current and prospective parents, we recognised that we needed to update our outside play spaces to bring them up to the standard of the internal facilities at the school. Timotay Playscapes, a specialist in the schools and nurseries sector, created a series of innovative and exciting designs which have transformed the outside space. With input from pupils, parents and staff, the designers created a series of zones which maximise the opportunities for all pupils to play imaginatively, creatively and physically.
Outside Areas
Purpose-built zones that addressed creative, imaginative and physical play have been placed in the most appropriate locations.
Quiet reflective areas have been included, along with natural sensory areas, giving pupils calm spaces in which to experience a variety of sounds, smells, textures and colours. Exploratory and messy play areas with mud kitchens, nature exploration and water-based science play are also on offer for the pupils.
Junior Playground
The school’s junior playground has inspiring new play equipment with surfacing that creates flow and movement.
Interactive Zones
Within the junior playground we have created shaded social interaction performance and story time zones, where children can socialise, sit and read books, or undertake creative arts. The climbing frame has been modernised and extended to add challenge for all ages.
A mud kitchen encourages messy digging. The playground surface is an all-weather play grass, which has brought softness and safety to the playground.
Sports Area
This area has been lifted and brightened, adding a more playful feel to reflect the school’s ambition of modernisation.
To brighten the space and to add an exciting journey that the children can take themselves on, we have designed a one-off “around the world” interactive wall with cause and effect, creative and imaginative features. The surfacing is a mix of the latest sports’ surface resin-bonded aggregate.
Creative and Chill out Zones
Curiosity and inquisitiveness form the beginnings of meaningful learning about ourselves and the world. So, what better way than to create Curiosity and Creativity Zones and to brighten the space and to add an exciting journey that the children can take themselves on?
A unique shaded zone with an interlocking triangular, coloured polycarbonate-shaped roof adds an ever-changing visual effect and atmosphere.
Pockets of seating and creative quote posts have been dotted around below the canopy. A faux living wall softens and screens the storage area.
