Caledonia Play have been creating fun and challenging outdoor spaces for over 20 years.
We design, manufacture and install a full range of products to enhance and develop outdoor spaces. Our speciality is timber but we can also supply metal equipment where required and can provide Schools and Nurseries with a ‘one stop shop’ providing solutions to suit all sizes of spaces and budgets.
Our range includes products specifically suited to Early Years and Nurseries, Primary and Secondary Years. Whilst we are advocates of inclusivity we have developped a range of products that are specifically designed to meet the needs of children and young people in SEN settings.
Quality and durability are key to us and we aim to create spaces that can offer challenge whilst maintaining pupil safety.
A copy of our brochure is available to download at
https://issuu.com/caledoniaplay/docs/commercial_brochure_2024?fr=sMjJkYjcwODY2ODQ
Or you can request a copy via our website
Case Studies
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.
