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Website News
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 A few bumps and bruises - 30/04/2013
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Children should be allowed to suffer bumps or bruises during their school days to help them build character, a leading headteacher will say today.
Christian Heinrich, chairman of the Boarding Schools Association, will tell his annual conference that more time needs to be spent on helping children to develop their curiosity.
The twin pressures of...
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| Are designers over-thinking playgrounds?My website gets a... - 21/02/2013
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My website gets a fair amount of traffic these days, and can generate some lively, informed debate - and I'm open to ideas for future pieces.
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Water Play
Mud and water are a play opportunity? What’s wrong with worn grassed areas or a puddle. Its still only earth and water after all? A problem of managing floor cleaning may not be reason enough to put half the playground out of bounds?
A fear of parental complaints about dirty clothes should not prevent children have dirty play. Playing on...
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Climbing Play
Best play, we know, is where children engage in activities of their own volition and invention that engages their imagination as well as their body. So a Play Tower set beneath a tree can become a den, a look-out, a rocket or a tree house.
The imagination is the limit. Play structures shapes like a metal plane can never be anything other than...
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Millfields Nursery
Millfields Nursery was an outside space which needed some up-dating and creating different areas in what was previously an empty tarmac space with some murals.
Theories Landscapes designed and built a climbing tower with ramps, hiding under-crofts, balance beams, planting beds, pergolas, a bike track with ground markings and traffic lights,...
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Growing Areas
Growing areas raised planters or allotments are an opportunity to help children to connect and understand nature better by enabling them to plant seeds, nurture young plants, and then reap mature fruit or vegetable. The value to support curriculum topics is obvious.
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Theories Landscapes design and build playgrounds for the imagination. A partnership of inspiration between us and you and your children. Greener, softer, multifunctioning playful spaces: a touchstone for creativity.
One playground with more play potential. See your children work with playground designers and builders, artists and sculptors conservationists and horticulturalists to create the playground you want.
All at once or project by project as funding allows, bring better play into your children's lives. Watch their creativity put out new shoots as participation empowers and develops self-confidence.
Places for sitting, chatting, studying, gardening, jumping, climbing, caring, laughing, playing loudly or quietly. Sunny places, shady places, safe places. They are all part of the activity called ‘play’.
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Edith Philipsen (Head Teacher Smithy Street Primary School) Nov 2012
Abc-Idea.Com &
Cloudsite
We are passionate about improving the quality of all children's play.
