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Eco classrooms can be used for a wide range of applications namely outdoor classrooms, extra classroom teaching areas, staff room, IT suite, library and resources centre, music/dance room, adult learning, nursery facility or even an office or meeting room.

Every facet of our eco classrooms has been manufactured with the environment in mind and therefore include such features as sedum roofs, low energy lighting, enhanced thermal efficiency, eco paints and renewable energy systems – these include wind turbine/solar panel systems and even special dynamo bikes which the children can pedal to create electricity.

Eco classrooms come in all shapes and sizes – namely octagonal, square and rectangular – and can either be open-sided or fully enclosed with insulation and glazing. Optional extras include solar panels, wind turbines, water butts and guttering systems for rainwater harvesting, lean to greenhouses, cold frames, nesting boxes and recycling bin centres.

“Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way school uses, and even generates, its own power. Our students won’t just be told about sustainable development, they will see and work within it: a living, learning place in which to explore what a sustainable lifestyle means” Tony Blair 2006

This Is Not Just Any Old Outdoor Classroom – This Is An Eco Centre!

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We have just started to install our first Eco Centre outdoor classroom buildings at primary schools in the UK. Last month, we have sold five and without wishing to brag, all of these schools are absolutely delighted with them.

These buildings not only provide a practical role by providing an outdoor space where children can simply learn outdoors or appreciate natural habitats and bio-diversity but they also act as an educational resource as well. The school children have been busy monitoring the panel on the wind turbine and solar panel system and using the energy created to power up some LED lights and other low level appliances. The rainwater from the water butt has been harvested and used to water the school’s growing gardens, vegetable patches and planters and some classrooms have been undertaking studies on monitoring the wildlife and bio-diversity that has been attracted via the sedum roof, mini eco pond and insect nests.

With the Eco School programme becoming ever more popular in schools and coupled with the fact that this generation need to understand and be more sympathetic to the environment so that it becomes second nature to them, I think we are going down the right line!

For more information please contact Simon Fearnehough on 01865 858982 or email simon@hideouthouse.com

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