Harcourt Valley Kindergarten
Client: Grove Group & Harcourt Valley Primary School
Collaboration: Vince McDonald - access consultant & Neil Thornton - playground auditor
Status: Design completed September 2020, construction completed January 2021
Collaboration: Vince McDonald - access consultant & Neil Thornton - playground auditor
Status: Design completed September 2020, construction completed January 2021
This project developed concept designs and documentation of the Harcourt Valley Kindergarten Play Yard. The kinder is being built within the Harcourt Valley Primary School grounds and has a high BAL (Bushfire Attack Level) rating of 29. The landscape design needed to provide excellent kinder education and play outcomes and required a strong response to bush fire threat including the provision of a 10m defendable space.
We developed the Kinder yard design in collaboration with the Kindergarten and School staff, the VSBA, architects, access auditor and playground auditor.
The proposals include:
We developed the Kinder yard design in collaboration with the Kindergarten and School staff, the VSBA, architects, access auditor and playground auditor.
The proposals include:
- Large loose parts play area,
- Sandpit with a mud kitchen and water play,
- Edible garden and henhouse
- Eating area and stage
- Mound slide with rock scramble and rope pull-up
- Cubbyhouse
- Swingset
- Ground labyrinth
- Integration of nature play elements with
- traditional equipment