St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in North West London wanted to enhance their outdoor play space to include a range of new sensory, imaginative and physical play equipment and was very keen to install high quality items as a long term investment in the outdoor curriculum.
After meeting with staff where a range of options were discussed, each piece of equipment was carefully selected to provide excellent play value. To withstand the rigours of daily playtimes, all the equipment was manufactured using recycled and/or HDPE plastic, as such materials are extremely durable and require only minimal maintenance. The new triple play tower features games, a slide and has multiple exit and entry points to enable a lot of pupils to play together at once. A new play den, fire engine, caterpillar tunnel and raft encourages imaginative games and a ‘river run’ water table and sand box provides a rich, tactile play experience.
Staff said that the new play equipment has reinvigorated breaktimes, with pupils zooming around the equipment, letting off steam and making up new games plus the sand and waterplay equipment is proving very popular with the younger pupils.
