Colour -UDL shortlisted for best of UK school design awards

Colour-UDL’s recently completed playground for Moorside Community Primary School has been shortlisted for the Best External Learning Environment entry.

Through a collaborative approach and expertise in translating the schools thoughts and children’s ideas into reality, Colour-UDL has realised a resource that is of huge value to the social, physical and creative development of children attending Moorside, situated in Arthurs Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ian Fordham, deputy chief executive of the BCSE, said: “There was – rightly - robust debate amongst the judging panel. The result is a short list which can act as a gold standard reference point for anybody involved in the school design and construction process”.

Key elements of the scheme include:

// Flexibility to allow children to determine use, structures and layouts – building dens and unstructured exploration

// Extension to the use of the space through climatic amelioration by using ‘warm surfaces’, structures and shelters

// Flexible activity areas such as for storytelling, performance, play, textured surfaces, grassy areas and maximum usage of existing elements – surfaces and features reinvented within a new landscape.