Take a Look at this New Trim Trail at Primrose Hill Primary School in Salford

This new trim trail at Primrose Hill was completed in three days.

Primrose Hill was opened in September 2007 following the amalgamation of St Clement’s CE and Radclyffe Community primary schools. Initially designed as a 1.5 form entry school, Primrose Hill has grown rapidly in recent years and is now a busy two-form entry school with over 450 pupils on roll. Despite increased numbers, all of their pupils are known individually and they want all of their children to reach their full potential in order for them to lead long, purposeful and fulfilled lives. They believe that every child can – and will – succeed at Primrose Hill.

Together, they have created a happy and vibrant school with equal opportunities for all. A school where every individual is celebrated and highly valued and where care, concern and ambition for each other is central to their work.

Working in partnership with their families and a range of organisations, Primrose Hill provides a safe, engaging and supportive learning environment designed to assess and meet the needs of all children and provide them with the skills necessary to be healthy, successful lifelong learners and good citizens in an ever-changing world.

Primrose Hill Primary got in touch with ESP Play via the website by submitting a general enquiry, one of our customer care team members then contacted the school to arrange for our representatives to visit the school and discuss the project in more depth.

Our consultant met with Lee, the schools Headteacher, he had some existing equipment that was old and deteriorating and he couldn’t decide whether or not to repair the equipment or replace it completely. We advised that the equipment be completely removed because it was beyond repair and unsalvageable at that stage. Lee advised that the equipment was mainly going to be used by the KS2 pupils and so we wanted to make sure it provided a challenge for them, he also said that the children like balancing and needed something to develop their upper body strength.

Following the meeting, we provided the school with two design options tailored to their space and budget; the first option included equipment that was all low level and did not require a safety surface and the second option included higher level items that did require a safety surface along with a rubber mulch safety surface.

Lee shared the designs with the school parliament and they provided some fantastic feedback for us; they preferred the option with the surfacing, they wanted to remove the spinning log but they loved the spider web net and were really excited by the overhead ladder bars so they wanted to keep both of those. Lee really liked how we had positioned the surfacing to run across the natural grass area joining up with the existing tarmac paths at both ends of the trail, he liked the fact that the children would be able to walk straight from the tarmac path onto the new surface without having to step on the natural grass.

We made the changes to the design and submitted it again, Lee and the school parliament absolutely loved the second draft and placed their order, the time it had taken from the initial meeting on the 23^rd of November to the order being placed was only two months.