Green Roof

Outdoor

Classrooms

Growing covered space, for teaching, playing, and waiting parents.

An outdoor classroom with our unique living roof – a roof planted for biodiversity, with on-roof habitats for beetles, solitary bees, and other invertebrates, and additional nesting for birds and bats.
Wall-fixed wildlife habitat panels add further nesting, overwintering and forage for insects.

Wild, not manicured, and reflecting the seasons, the roof is an area for plants, insects and birds, that can be seen but doesn’t get disturbed frequently, and is free from herbicide use.

Simple to maintain, and designed to let wild flowers and plants flourish, the roof is not intended to be gardened, but benefits from removing any unwanted plants (from a low stepladder) once or twice a year.

An outdoor classroom’s green roof and habitat panels can be a starting point to talking about the local wildlife, explaining the benefits plants and wildlife contribute, the importance of biodiversity, and the need for spaces and habitat for plants, insects and animals.  And the benefits of re-using reclaimed or recycled materials can be highlighted too.

Green Roof Outdoor Classroom

A recycled-container classroom delivered to a school in north London. Delivered and lowered into position using the delivery lorry's on-board hiab crane, onto 5 simple pad footings.

Glazed openings and doors, all use FSC european timber while internally the container is lined with plywood panelling, fitted with integral lighting and power sockets, and floored in durable flax-based linoleum.

Classroom with green roof for Primary School Green Roof Outdoor Classroom

An outdoor classroom for a primary school in Buckinghamshire.

Outdoor Green Roof Classroom for Primary School Green Roof Classroom with habitat wall for wildlife

Habitat for birds, bats, a broad variety of solitary bees, and other invertebrates.

Can be supplied with permanent lifting strops, so very simple to lift and relocate.

Shipping Container Classroom

A recycled-container classroom delivered to a school in Cambridgeshire. Part sheltered open space with bench seating, part secure store (using the original container doors).

The gabion roof edges use crushed reclaimed clay-brick, and allow invertebrate refuge at the edge of the diversely planted green roof, while bird boxes and bat slots allow roof spaces for nesting.