Bing School’s playground renovation project, begun in 2014, will be completed in December. We’ve added custom-designed climbing structures, hillside slides, a climbing net, nest swings and natural boulder climbing features. One classroom has been configured to have a wheelchair-accessible pathway linking it to the play areas, and all classrooms have new gardening beds. Children now have more challenging climbing and play structures, which promote play, collaboration and physical challenge.
Children’s ideas on what to name the climbing structure, above and at right:
A climbing thing
A spider web
A structure
A constructure
A climber
Soccer ball
Nectarine
Net climber
Fire ball
Fire structure
Octagon
Frog structure
Rope
Net
Children’s comments on the structure:
How did they make this structure so high?
It must have taken days and days and days.
I’m the highest one.
Everyone looks so small!
I can see EVERYTHING.
Look how high I am!
Can I jump? That was AWESOME!
I can see the beautiful paintings in the other classroom.
I can even see the other classroom! They’re making bubbles!
Climbing Net
Nest Swing