On The Hill Outreach
Re-imagining The Classroom
We work with schools and in community settings to create outdoor spaces, engaging children, young people and adults in the whole process from creative design to planning and getting our hands busy together.
Our experienced facilitators, builders and carpenters will work with you to create cob sculptures, wood fired pizza ovens, circle gardens, fire pit areas, raised beds and growing areas. Re-imagining and devloping the outdoor classroom or community setting.
These projects, particularly in schools are a vehicle for building skills in team work and communication, discovering interests and hidden talents that perhaps havn't been given the chance to shine, as well as a rich opportunity for developing a variety of practical skills from horticulture to carpentry.
Get in touch for a conversation to disuss your ideas and how we may be of service in your community setting
Tiverton High School
Creating an Alternative Provision
We were bought into the school by a visionary deputy head to create an outdoor classroom, which would enable an alternative provision to grow within the school grounds. This space is particularly important for children who need time outdoors to regulate, and offers them opportunities to enage in land-based education and skills development.
What started as an abandonded old swimming pool (filled in!) is now a thriving garden, green woodworking space and wood fired pizza oven, with a fire circle created for sitting together, cooking food over the fire and storytelling.
This has been huge labour of love and graft with a group of children from the school, through very chilly and challenging winter days to the final stage seeing in the summer solstice 2024!
King Edward VI Community College
The Peace Garden Project
We have been working alongside students and staff to develop the school community's peace garden.
Over a year we have worked with the SEND students from year 7 to year 11 to design and develop this outdoor space.
It has a central firepit and seating area and many growing beds, with a variety of flowers, plants and food growing-creating new habitats for wildlife.
The most recent project has been building a cob pizza oven, which can be used for community fundraising events and shared lunches.
The resource is available for the whole school community, and learning opportunities can be integrated into the wider curriculum.
This space is now a haven for wildlife; bees, butterflies and insects have made their home here.
St Peter's CofE Secondary School, Exeter
