Outdoor classrooms

Large timber gazebo for use as a focal point in school playgrounds or outdoor areas. Standard size offers seating for around 30 children, making it ideal for use as an outdoor classroom, play area or shaded rest spot. Roof diameter: 6700mm. Height: 3800mm. Length: 6700mm. Width: 6700mm. Full timber structure in pressure-treated redwood

Zenith provides a range of practical, attractive canopies for outdoor classrooms which can be used all year round regardless of the weather. Canopy structures are a cost effective solution to provide outdoor covered space. Shelters for outdoor classroom applications include: airone Tipo 150; airone Max 175; airone Minimax 80 canopy shelter

Branson Leisure manufactures and installs school shelters which are mainly used as outdoor classrooms, parent waiting areas and children's play areas: can be tailor-made to exact requirements; free-standing structures and under 2.8m tall, therefore no planning permission required; manufactured from a range of materials including hardwood, softwood

Providing idyllic shade and shelter, a gazebo can create the perfect location for outdoor learning. Each outdoor classroom benefits from a felted roof and a choice of either a shiplap or balustrade panel surround

The Caversham Gazebo will offer a focal point for any outdoor area and is ideal for use as an outdoor classroom, play area or shaded rest spot. Caversham, a smaller version of the Darell gazebo, is ideal for schools and nurseries, with the standard sizing offering seating for around 20 children: age range: 2yrs+; minimum use zone: 28.9m2; bespoke

The Willingdon gazebo, a smaller version of the Caversham Gazebo, is ideal for smaller schools and nurseries, with the standard sizing offering seating for around 10-15 children. With its feather-edge roof it is an attractive structure that provides shelter and shade. A popular wooden shelter ideal for smaller groups, can be used as part of a

Modular Learning Hub is an outdoor classroom system designed for year-round use, suitable for learning, exercise and play. Made from galvanised mild steel and polycarbonate sheeting, it is customisable in size and finish: outdoor modular classroom system for flexible learning and activity spaces; clear, opal, or bronze 16mm multi-wall

The head teacher of Walkley School in Sheffield asked Handspring Design to design a stage and covered seating for her primary school. Drawing inspiration from the roof of the old Victorian school, and a slice of local Sheffield steel industrial heritage, Handspring came up with the stage and covered seating design, for which full planning

Handspring Design created a timber outdoor classroom with a green roof for a primary school in Whitley Bay. The frame was constructed in UK-grown Douglas Fir with six mortise and tenon jointed and pegged posts with braces onto a hexagonal ring beam. The roof is 12-sided around the perimeter and turns into a star when looking up, and features

Handspring Design created two 6 x 4m timber outdoor classrooms with sedum green roofs, seating and planters for the roof space and playground of a primary school in Wandsworth, London. The base frames of the Angled shelters are made from galvanised steel box section, with UK FSC Douglas fir timber for the rest of the structure. They have been designed to

Playground designs Beaucroft Foundation School in Wimborne, Dorset has recently enhanced its playground with a series of WoodBlocX raised planters and seats. Having been specified by Boon Brown’s Landscape Architecture team, we supplied eight different designs, including numerous bespoke structures ranging from large circular planters to

AMV Playgrounds designed and installed three separate bespoke classroom canopies with roller shutters, across two construction phases, to enhance the outdoor provision for the early years setting at Newton Bluecoat Primary School in Preston, Lancashire

The inner courtyard garden at Winchelsea Primary School has been transformed into a sensory space for pupils with the centrepiece being a circular raised planter bordered by two curved planters to complement the range of interactive sensory features included within the overall design of the garden created by Senteq. Each planter, with a wide

Branson Leisure completed an outdoor classroom / shelter project for All Hallows School, Surrey. This versatile timber shelter is 14.4m-long and has 8 bays. It can be used for learning, outdoor eating or just for socialising. The construction included the frame base for the decking - which was stepped to accommodate an incline on

All Saints school in Leask has grown significantly over the last 20 years, with pupil numbers trebling. It was identified that the external environment needed to offer more opportunities and resources for outdoor learning, as well as a need for a free-flow play area for the Early Years pupils

Working in very close collaboration with BCA Landscape Architects from Liverpool, Handspring Design delivered two very involved projects at Chester Zoo for their new Madagascar themed play space. As well as physical play the design team has tried to develop more role playing and creative play into the scheme - resulting in the base camp building

Handspring designed, manufactured and installed a 7x5m outdoor classroom for Dore Primary School in Sheffield. The main frame is made from freshly sawn UK FSC Douglas Fir using traditonal timber framing, with all joints draw dowelled with oak pegs