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Projects
Brightening Up Reception Playgrounds
📍Greensted Primary School and Nursery, Basildon
🗓 July 2025
Brief
Greenstead Primary School and Nursery pride themselves on providing their pupils with a fantastic all-round learning experience and wanted an outdoor area that reflected this. One of our team met with the headteacher where they discussed ideas – he had said he wanted to brighten up the area, focussing on the surfacing, by creating the “ultimate design” for their reception playground.
Area of installation
Solution
After hearing this brief, our team designed an area that used artificial grass in a range of colours to brighten up the space while also creating different zones that the school could use. It was also noted that there was a lot of ride on toys in the playground, so we also included a roadway!
Project Details
Artificial Grass
Our Luxury Green Artificial Grass was installed to the majority of the area – this provides an all-weather surface that is low maintenance and mess free. There is also colourful Funky Artificial Grass, used to create a sensory path and splashes around the area. Multi-Play Artificial Grass was used to create the roadway due to its shorter pile height, making it perfect for scooters, bikes and cars! We also added a construction zone, musical graphics and Snakes and Ladders game into the surfacing.
Mobile Trail Items
To incorporate some physical play into the area, the school asked for some of our Mobile Trail – these are moveable pieces of equipment that encourage children to be active and develop their motor skills without needing permanent installation.
Musical Play Panels
To add some creativity to the area, we added some Musical Play Panels – these are manufactured using hardwearing, weather resistant HDPE and installed onto timber posts making them perfect for outdoor use and provide an exciting opportunity for children to enhance their creativity, imagination and self-expression.
Result
The reception class now has an exciting new area that reflects the standard of learning from the school, as well as somewhere to host school events!