A year and a half ago we were approached by the head teacher of a primary school in South London with an interesting and challenging brief – after many discussions with their school council, they wanted to have an outdoor classroom in their school playground but not just any old outdoor classroom. The school wanted […]
Just before Christmas, the presenter and producer of “It’s All Good Radio Show” Debbie Hyde very kindly interviewed me for her radio show to talk about what we as the Hideout House Co are doing as a company and how we successfully work with schools in the UK to help develop their eco school strategies, activities […]
I recently came across a company who supply solar panels to schools and who very interestingly told me that a lot of their installations are now paid for via crowdfunding initiatives. So in your quest for the Holy Grail of funding, this is certainly something that you should consider. I have therefore done some further […]
On my very many travels round schools, I always see picnic benches or tables which are made out of a re-cycled plastic composite material which does actually look like traditional timber, but isn’t. When I ask teachers why they bought these benches, the response is pretty much unanimous – although they are bit more expensive, the […]
This article is not really to tell you how you make the actual school building(s) more eco friendly and energy efficient but more so to inform how you can creatively engage the children, staff and parents in promoting sustainability and fostering a keen knowledge of all things “green” within an educational environment. You need to […]
As so many schools nowadays need to find alternative ways of funding our products outside of the main school budgets, I thought that I would put pen to paper as to how I would go about this if I were a school business manager or head teacher. And this information is based on our extensive […]
We are about to undertake quite a big project for St Marks Primary School in North London and their very active and generous PTA are now wanting to start fundraising for one of our Eco Centres with all of the “trimmings”. Their biggest fundraising event is the Summer Fayre held later this month so they came […]
We have just completed the installation of one of our mobile classrooms at Millbrook Primary School in Swindon. This has been over a year in the making but it is now up and running and the school are delighted. We built the mobile classroom to the head’s specification which includes a 54m2 teaching area, […]
HOW DO YOU COMBINE HOSTING A FILM NIGHT ALONGSIDE A SPONSORED BIKE RIDE BUT AT THE SAME TIME & IN THE SAME ROOM? The Hideout House Company in partnership with Electric Pedals have created a unique and fun way for school PTAs to raise funds In order to help PTAs in their quest to find something […]
The Hideout House Company in partnership with Timotay Playscapes have created a unique product offering to promote eco awareness in schools. With climate change and environmental concerns firmly back on the international agenda and featured regularly in the mainstream media, awareness about these important issues and embracing social responsibilities within our schools is now more […]