Harry Gosling School is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest areas, certainly in London. The borough suffers from a dearth of open, green space – most children at this school would not have as a matter of ordinary experience access to anything resembling a ‘natural’ environment. The school playground that confronted us was the usual…
Children are now outside playing and learning in their newly developed school grounds at Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre. This was a complex commission for a number of reasons that included: the outdoors was wrapped around three sides of the school building; two of the sides were allocated to a specific age range; one side was the Children’s Centre…