Salen Primary School

Caledonia Play worked alongside Sterry-Walters Landscape Architects to create several outdoor spaces for Salen Primary School on the Isle of Mull. This included: 

A large play trail - Designed to suit the abilities of the older children in the school - this play trail is a large timber structure including scramble ramps and nets, bench seating, covered dens, steel vertical climbing sections, a moon seat, acrylic domes and a sedum roof. The area is multi-functional offering both a recreational space as well as an outdoor shelter.

Sensory play areas -  a selection of outdoor spaces each with their own sensory focus.including a Music Wall, Water Wall with Bucket and Pulley Systems, Outdoor Mirrors, Bespoke Sandpit, Magpost and Balancing Scales

Imaginative play zones - These allow the younger children to develop their improvisational play skills and offer a framework for them to build upon in whatever manner they choose to. These included Mud Kitchens, Low Log Houses, Rustic Log Stump Seating, Mushroom Sets, Sleeper Benches and a Log Post Sundial 

Storytelling Area - designed to resemble the bow of a ship (named Lochinver) gives a gentle nod to island life and its proximity and the influences of the surrounding seas in daily life.

Physical play - the development of large motor skills is enhanced by a set of products that challenge the children to move and push themselves physically while still having a lot of fun, including Climbing Hold Stilts and Traversing Wall with Mirrors

Different types and colours of playground surfacing are used to differentiate the various outdoor spaces to give them each a visual identity whilst offering an amount of protection and minimising injury should a child fall.