Eco Zone Packages
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 important than ever.
To foster this process, the Hideout House Company have put together a range of unique and creative product packages which compliment the major eco schools themes – RENEWABLE ENERGY, BIO-DIVERSITY, SCHOOL GROUNDS, HEALTHY LIVING, RECYCLING AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP.
The company has therefore created four distinct “centres” or “zones”. The Renewable Energy Centre allows children to monitor, measure and use green energy from the sun, water, wind and pedal power. Via an energy-monitoring panel and power unit, students can then use this clean and carbon neutral electricity to power up their laptops, tablets, mobile phones, visualisers, cameras or even a radio station!
The Growing and Healthy Living Centre features products which encourage children to plant and grow their own food and complete the cycle by composting any waste which can then be used as fertiliser for the planter beds…to help grow more food.
Wild and natural outdoor spaces can sometimes be a rare site in our schools today so the Biodiversity Centre gives children the opportunity to learn about and observe at first hand animals, conservation and wild meadows.
The Recycling Centre features a very unique product which is the water re-cycling and power generating water mine. Via a hand pump set in a tower, children can pump water from a reservoir onto a water wheel which in turn transfers motion through a shaft to an interactive pulley that can run a windmill at a variable speed. The water drops from the wheel into the rill and can then be dammed both with a screw action sluice gate and removable plastic gates. The flow of water can also be changed with moveable textured “islands”.
Children can also construct their own “igloo” den made out of recycled plastic milk cartons.
And all of these specialist zones are spokes to the Eco Outdoor Classroom or Hub (complete with sedum roof) where children can conduct their studies outdoors and genuinely take learning outside of the classroom.
If schools are working towards their Eco Schools accreditation, are wanting to successfully take learning outside of the classroom, are wishing to develop innovative ways to deliver curriculum outcomes and involve the local community, then the Hideout House Company have come up with the ideal solution.
And we are helping to save the planet……..
For more information, please contact Simon Fearnehough on 01865 858982/07711 542589 or
e-mail: simon@hideouthouse.com
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