TouchWood Play: Ready to Play brochure

Ready to Play PLAYGROUNDS FOR SCHOOLS

Natural, sustainable playgrounds for schools

Est. 2002

Our expert team has created a range of playgrounds specifically for schools to help deliver learning priorities while providing amazing play experiences.

Ready to Play Our Ready to Play designs for primary schools offer a range of playgrounds, each with a focus on a different play type: •

Exploratory nature play

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Physical play

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Sensory play

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Imaginative play

These safe, long-lasting and great value playgrounds have been curated by our education design team to inspire, challenge and nurture your students.

Our process Stage 1 CHOOSE YOUR PLAYGROUND

Stage 2 TECHNICAL DESIGN We create and send technical drawings for you to sign off.

Select one of our Ready to Play playgrounds. You can add extra or bespoke options if required. We then provide a site survey and pricing assurance.

Stage 4

Stage 3 MANUFACTURE & INSTALLATION We build your playground features at our woodyard.

SIGN-OFF & SUPPORT

Our experienced team

Once installed, an independent play

installs on your site

safety inspector signs off the play area.

following a programme

You’ll then receive a detailed inspection

that works for you.

and maintenance manual to help you care for your new area, as well as details of our maintenance service, if you’d like support with this.

Wild Wonderland

The Wild Wonderland playground has a wide variety of active play, ideal for developing skills in agility, balance, flexibility, strength and endurance.

It features a play tower covered in wildwood for a natural look and feel.

The playground encourages free and unrestricted play, allowing children to fully engage in their activities. They can also enjoy exploring the local geography in a playful manner, all within a textured and natural playground setting.

Features include: • Wildwood tower with slide, triple ladder and fireman’s pole • Climbing logs

Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks

• Zigzag balance beams • Timber tangle with scramble net

Installation time on school site:

• 6-pole forest

4 weeks

• Log hops • Rope trail with hawser rope and parallel ropes

*Subject to availability Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.

£35,000

Imagination Island

Children discover, invent and explore many different imaginary worlds throughout the course of their play, from carefully ordered alternate realities to recreations of everyday personal and social experiences.

The Imagination Island playground has a variety of options to create fantastical worlds, allowing for children to explore between reality and imagination and to test different roles and identities in open and flexible spaces.

Features include:

Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*:

• Outdoor classroom

• Stage, blackboard and shade sails

• Oak sleeper benches

• Hollow log

• Balance beams

• Talking stumps

• Log hops

• Loose parts play kit

Installation time on school site:

• Table and log seats

• Play kitchen

4 weeks

• Bushcraft den

• A-frame den

• Giant’s chair

• Robinia half-nest

*Subject to availability Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.

6-8 weeks

£38,000

Active Adventures

The Active Adventures playground is packed with a variety of energetic play promoting a wide range of whole-body movements such as running, jumping, climbing, scrambling, crawling and sliding.

This play helps develop skills in agility, balance, flexibility, strength and endurance.

The multi-platform tower contains a range of features to promote active play, including ladders, a fireman’s pole and slide, along with opportunities for climbing and scrambling.

Features include: • Multi-platform tower with slide, climbing wall and fireman’s pole • Climbing logs • Zigzag balance beams • Timber tangle with scramble net • 6-pole forest

Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks

Installation time on school site: 4 weeks

• Log hops • Rope trail with hawser rope and parallel ropes

*Subject to availability Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.

£38,000

Sensory Sanctuary

In the Sensory Sanctuary playground, children explore sound, smell and textures. Activating different senses helps to increase their body awareness and make sense of the world around them.

The sensory planting area creates a calm space away from the flow to sit, reflect, read and draw.

The play huts and play route with giant hawser rope and swinging logs provide proprioceptive play elements.

The playground also provides acoustic play with musical instruments, talking tubes, and pea gravel and water play.

Lead time (from confirmation of

Features include: • Large play hut

• Blackboard

• Sand platform

• Small play hut

• Storytelling throne

• Sleeper planters

• Zigzag balance beams

• Talking stumps

• Planter with seat

• Log hops

• Chute and pulley board

• Spiral scraper

• Rope trail with hawser rope and swinging logs

• Moveable water play trough and channels

• Xylophone curve

*Subject to availability Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.

order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks

Installation time on school site: 3 weeks

• Pea gravel pit

£43,000

Outdoor Discovery

Meeting a plant or animal close up is one of life’s natural wonders for children. They have the innate desire to contact, test, interact and connect with the natural world – this is called biophilia.

The Outdoor Discovery playground allows freely chosen, personally directed and open-ended play. In this space, building and making is the natural expression of children’s mastery and control over materials or natural environments.

Features include: • Outdoor classroom

• Bee hotel

• Sand platform

• Oak sleeper benches

• Play kitchen

• Play cabin

• Explorer table

• Moveable water play trough and channels

• Balance beams

• Easel

• Zigzag balance beams • Scales • Log hops

• Loose parts play kit

• Worm viewing station

• Chute and pulley board

• Magnifying post *Subject to availability

Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.

Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks

• Sand pit

Installation time on school site:

• Tipi den

4 weeks

• Storytelling throne • Planter with seat

£55,000

We’d love to work with you.

To get started with a Ready to Play playground, talk to our expert team. We’re always happy to answer any questions you may have about how we work, or offer advice on how best to successfully deliver your project. +44 (0)117 963 8222 | enquiries@touchwoodplay.co.uk

Email: enquiries@touchwoodplay.co.uk

Bower Ashton Woodyard, Bristol, BS3 2JT United Kingdom www.touchwoodplay.co.uk (+44) 0117 963 8222