Our team worked closely with St Paul’s Cray CE Primary and Nursery School, Orpington to create an amazing, inspiring new area for their EYFS children to learn, explore, discover and have fun.
The school had a pre-existing playtower with a small surrounding area of wet-pour surfacing, but they wanted Schoolscapes to help them to embark on the next stage of improving their limited outdoor provision. They had already received a few initial playground designs, but we were able to carefully incorporate their current play tower into an inspiring, new, whole-playground beach-themed design, ensuring that in the future, their whole space would be used more effectively.
Their bright and colourful playground now has specific zones, increasing opportunities for children’s physical activity, providing inspiration for creative play and open space for investigative activities. Our colourful choice of artificial grass and wet-pour provide the children with different textures to play on, as well as providing a safe, all weather playground surface.
Our clever design incorporates an interesting trackway, grass islands and a wooden timber bridge, to encourage decision making and to improve gross motor skills. Our playtime garage promotes creative thinking and collaborative play through role play and using real-life skills. This allows pupils to develop their social and language skills naturally, through play. We linked the playtower and the trim trail with blue synthetic grass in a fluid river design, as a natural continuation of the beach theme.
