Primary School playgrounds should encourage learning and exploration for young learners. Throughout Key Stage 1, children will continually discover their abilities and interests through experience, socialising and experimenting through play.
Key Design Principles
- Outdoor Classrooms for group activities
- Play equipment that offers more challenges as they grow
- Quiet spaces for independent activity
- Universal accessibility
- Active equipment for PE and sports
Playground Ideas for Primary Schools
ACTIVE PLAY
Active play develops gross motor skills, balance, and coordination. Introduce greater challenges as children develop, helping to improve health, fitness, and activity-levels in Primary School children.
Trim Trails
Trim trails have been traditional playground equipment investments for school playgrounds for over 30 years. Our timber trim trail range provides children with exciting physical challenges that are safe and targeted to different stages of development.
Consisting of exciting equipment installed in a flowing playground design, a trim trail gets your students active. Children can explore the trails at their own pace to experience a range of balancing, climbing, and swinging activities.
Agility Sticks
Transform your school playground into an active play space with a climbing tower from our innovative Agility Sticks range. Designed specifically for primary school children, these sustainable timber structures promote physical development, balance, and coordination.
The Hex Net Climber is suited for Key Stage 1 playgrounds, bringing children together for fun climbing activities with a central net and options for slides and fireman’s pole exits.
Sensory & EDUCATIONAL Play
Creative and interactive equipment to enhance sensory exploration and cognitive development for all children of all ages and abilities.
Musical Play
Musical Play has a hugely positive effect on young and developing minds. Noise-making in the great outdoors brings children the feeling of freedom, creativity, and sensory-stimulation that are incredibly beneficial to healthy development.
Our wide-ranging and accessible outdoor musical play equipment instruments are a unique, innovative addition to any school playground.
Water Wall
Transform your playground into a water wonderland with our Free-Standing Water wall!
This sensory feature includes a magnetic back panel, a high-quality water pump, and cleverly engineered water channels that bring the water wall to life. Designed for children to have fun together, socialising, and experimenting with water for a unique sensory experience.
SENSORY & EDUCATIONAL Play Panels
Our range of Play Panels for playgrounds in Schools and Nurseries brighten up any playground. They add a range of sensory play values for your students to enjoy, including sensory-stimulation, imagination, and socialisation.
Bring additional learning to your School Playground with phonics learning and sum practice panels. Interactive, colourful, and fun play panel designs provide opportunities for students to practice what they learn in class, bringing education our onto the playground.
Nature Learning Posters
Introduce wider education of the natural world and local ecosystems with a range of high-resolution, water-proof educational posters. Spark curiosity about the British Countryside with information on the trees, insects, birds, and animals found there.
Educational posters are a perfect visual aid for teachers to get students excited about their environment. Encourage outdoor exploration and engagement with the natural world around them for a more holistic education.
Creative Play
Shape your primary school students’ outdoor learning and play into environments that inspire independence, creativity, and imagination.
Reading Huts
A new addition to our outdoor classroom arsenal, our square school reading huts for schools are the ideal outdoor cover for early years playground quiet spaces. These are perfect for small groups to work together and play.
These wooden outdoor cabins include bench seating, options for panelling designs, and a waterproof reading canopy roof to keep young learners dry and safe. Therefore, your outdoor classroom reading huts are fully customisable.
Mud Kitchens
Mud Kitchens are the perfect addition to any outdoor play space with special appeal for younger children.
Messy play areas like mud kitchens offer endless opportunities for children to develop fine motor skills, enhance their understanding of materials, and ignite their imaginations through creative play. Whether they’re making mud pies or potions, children can explore and learn while having fun in nature.
Mark Making Bundle
A whiteboard, chalkboard, and painting Window on Wheels is a brilliant, flexible feature for any primary school outdoor area!
Its versatility allows for dynamic use, enabling children of different age groups to engage in activities simultaneously. This equipment also gives teachers the freedom to adapt the space for various play and learning scenarios.
Natural Play
Wooden equipment that connects children with nature and the environment in the great outdoors.
Playground Planter
Bring nature into your playground with our high-quality wooden Playground Planter for flower beds and school gardens.
Designed to inspire outdoor fun, creativity, and learning, these planters are suitable for children of all ages. This versatile planter is perfect for encouraging kids to engage with the environment in a hands-on way.
Bug Hotel
The Bug Hotel is a delightful way to engage children with the wonders of nature! It provides a hands-on opportunity for young explorers to discover the vital role wildlife plays in our ecosystems.
By inviting creatures into this unique habitat, you’re not just creating a home for insects but nurturing curiosity, respect, and a lifelong connection to the natural world.
Primary School Playground Surfacing for Key Stage 1
As children enter primary school environments, they need a range of challenges that match their skills as they develop, while remaining safe for them to take risks and explore their potential. Safe surfacing is key to providing. They are not only colourful and visually stunning, but they also make your playground safer with superior shock absorption.
Wet Pour Surfacing
Wetpour playground surfacing is one of the most popular choices of playground safety flooring in our range.
Often referred to as rubberised tarmac, we mix this on site using EPDM granules and a high strength binder. Once the soft surfacing is laid, it cures to form a strong impact absorbing surface.
Artificial Grass
Quality artificial grass playground surfacing is becoming more and more popular in Primary Schools, Academies, and Nurseries.
Our range of specially developed playground grass has the appearance of real grass, with all the benefits of a synthetic playground surface.
Rubber Mulch
Resin Bound Rubber Mulch Playground Surfacing is a popular safety surface in Primary Schools and Academies.
If your school is looking to achieve a natural look and appearance without the usual maintenance issues, this choice is perfect for you.
Playground Markings
Build fun into your playground surfaces with our range of educational, active, and creative playground markings.
We provide personalised markings suited to your playground, with colourful graphics, number lines, games, and sports markings perfect to engage primary school children.
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