Insight

The area is used by everyone from pre-schoolers through to grade sixes, so needed to work for a wide range of ages. Spaces were planned from a micro perspective – for example for children to recognise all parts of a flower, or categorise a leaf form – through to a macro level, where they can grow food in a kitchen garden to cook, or find birds or insect and other such things that correspond with the real world. The Scott Carver, students and their parent’s volunteered their time at a planting day workbee.

Solution

A native garden complete with fossils, a sensory garden, a productive garden and a shaded area for desks are all part of the extensive plan. There is also a play area where the children can scramble up uneven stairs and rock logs, a stream that would be dry most of the time, a bank they can roll down. A physical space for imaginative play is also included.