10 Dec 2012
The environment at Middle Harbour Public School has been enhanced by the creation of an outdoor classroom. In February 2012,there was great excitement in the school when Mrs Carole Jaye received a call from the organiser of Project Local to say that our idea of an outdoor classroom was voted as the favourite project thought the Mosman Daily and other newspapers in the organisation. We were extremely grateful that the MHPS families and friends, far and wide, voted for our project!
Having this funding together with a generous donation from a parent and one from IGA Cremorne, allowed us to establish an aesthetically beautiful, functional, tranquil, outdoor teaching and learning facility.
A real success of the classroom was engaging the students. Teachers gave them opportunities for input and ultimately ownership. They designed the outdoor classroom by measuring and drawing the area to scale, researching suitable plants, types of structures and appropriate seating. The Year 6 leaving group donated the money to purchase the wood for the seating as part of their gift to the school.
‘Gardens work as imaginative spaces – on the ground
as well as in words and pictures.
They related to the world
beyond their walls and fences.'
Stephen Deuchan