Innovative solutions for outdoor learning, natural play, forest schools & secondary schools.
We work with you to create innovative school grounds & outdoor areas that are inspiring, practical and seasonally beautiful. School grounds, forest schools, and early years settings that offer the freedom to play, learn and interact with the natural world all year round. Accessible all year, with carefully sourced materials, bespoke features and beautifully maturing planting – all adding character and personality to school outdoor environments.
We know that by creating an engaging and inspirational outdoor environment, your school will become a better place to learn, play, interact and impart cultural values. For 25 years we have designed and built these essential landscapes and gardens.
We can help you with:
- More coherent and logical site layout
- Staged development
- Long term planning
- Ease of supervison
- All year round access to natural places
- Avoiding site congestion
- Low maintenance
- Low carbon footprint
- Encourage learning, play and mindfulness
- Connect with nature
- Enhance biodiversity
- Improve behaviour
“Outdoor environments are important to children’s development of independence and autonomy.”
- Sheridan Bartlett, Access to Outdoor Play and Its Implications for Healthy Attachments, Putney 1996
“The experiences children have in early life – and the environments in which they have them – shape their developing brain architecture and strongly affect whether they grow up to be healthy, productive members of society.”
- Harvard University, 2007
“With children’s access to the outdoors and the natural world becoming increasingly limited or nonexistent, child care, kindergarten and schools, where children spend 40 to 50 hours per week, may be mankind’s last opportunity to reconnect children with the natural world and create a future generation that values and preserves nature.”
- Herrington & Studtmann 1998, Malone & Tranter 2003