The desire to play comes naturally to all children and its value is undeniable. It is an essential part of a child’s daily life. Children will play everywhere, all the time, with anything that they can find. When you look back at your time at school you will most likely remember situations that happened in the playground. The process of playing increases a child’s esteem and opens a young mind to new possibilities. 
Play cannot be planned or controlled by adults, it happens when you create a wide range of possibilities then let children use their imaginations, exercise their creativity and control their own activity. The vision for the playscape will focus on five principal considerations: 
- Supply shelter from wind, sight and sound
- Provide limitless directions of discovery and provide only the searcher with its full potentials
- Offer various possibilities for different moods, interests, and needs
- To offer atmosphere and impart a sense of well-being
- Allow controllable risk, perceptible risk and manipulable risk
Through careful consideration of materiality, build-ability, safety and longevity as set out by the design guidelines and taking inspiration from the ideas generated by the pupils, the playscape will provide an interactive focal point within the playground. It will provoke imaginations and create challenging and fun activities where all Morley Newlands children have the opportunity to interact, develop social, verbal and problem solving skills that will help them to flourish in the classroom.

The proposal is made up of intersecting planes which simultaneously allow open and continuous spaces as a series of manipulable zones.

The colour and graphic textures are printed on removable and recyclable vinyl which is then applied onto honeycomb post tensioned layered panels which are re-used from industries such as door manufacturers and furniture fabricators. Steel framing is embedded within the panels and posts support the frame at key intersecting to provide rigidity.