Ready to Play
PLAYGROUNDS FOR SCHOOLS
Natural, sustainable playgrounds for schools
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
• Physical play
• Sensory play
• 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
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
SIGN-OFF & SUPPORT
Once installed, an independent play safety inspector signs off the play area. You’ll then receive a detailed inspection 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.
Stage 2
TECHNICAL DESIGN
We create and send technical drawings for you to sign off.
Stage 3
MANUFACTURE & INSTALLATION
We build your playground features at our woodyard. Our experienced team installs on your site following a programme that works for you.
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
• Zigzag balance beams
• Timber tangle with scramble net
• 6-pole forest
• 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.
Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks
Installation time on school site: 4 weeks
£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:
• Outdoor classroom
• Oak sleeper benches
• Balance beams
• Log hops
• Table and log seats
• Bushcraft den
• Giant’s chair
*Subject to availability
• Stage, blackboard and shade sails
• Hollow log
• Talking stumps
• Loose parts play kit
• Play kitchen
• A-frame den
• Robinia half-nest
Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.
Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks
Installation time on school site: 4 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
• 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.
Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks
Installation time on school site: 4 weeks
£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.
Features include:
• Large play hut
• Small play hut
• Zigzag balance beams
• Log hops
• Rope trail with hawser rope and swinging logs
*Subject to availability
• Blackboard
• Storytelling throne
• Talking stumps
• Chute and pulley board
• Moveable water play trough and channels
• Sand platform
• Sleeper planters
• Planter with seat
• Spiral scraper
• Xylophone curve
• Pea gravel pit
Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*:
6-8 weeks
Installation time on school site: 3 weeks
Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.
£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
• Oak sleeper benches
• Play cabin
• Balance beams
• Zigzag balance beams
• Log hops
• Worm viewing station
• Magnifying post
*Subject to availability
• Bee hotel
• Play kitchen
• Explorer table
• Easel
• Scales
• Loose parts play kit
• Chute and pulley board
Prices are approximate, exclusive of installation and VAT, and subject to change.
• Sand platform
• Moveable water play trough and channels
• Sand pit
• Tipi den
• Storytelling throne
• Planter with seat
Lead time (from confirmation of order to completion)*: 6-8 weeks
Installation time on school site: 4 weeks
£55,000
