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Topic: School grounds

Paris to open school grounds as public spaces

As part of its new ‘resilience strategy’, the French capital has launched a programme to transform its state schoolyards into green, inclusive public spaces. Adrian Voce reports. Paris will open up school grounds to the local...Read more
|1 comment|author: Adrian Voce

Building the asthma-friendly school garden

For the many children who have asthma, the typical schoolyard is not a friendly place. Most school gardens have pollen-producing male clonal shrubs, trees and many other plants that can provoke asthma attacks. Here, Peter...Read more
|2 comments|author: Peter Prakke

Play through the eyes of a child – Part two

As discussed in part 1, children’s play is an instinctive and natural phenomenon. As such, it has vast, many-varied possible manifestations. Yet what does this actually mean? From birth, a baby wants to interact: initially with...Read more
|Comment|author: Jane Roberts