Wire Fence Helps Leigh Academy Rainham with £147.54 Discount to Create Outdoor Classroom
Wire Fence recently supported Leigh Academy Rainham by providing a £147.54 discount on materials for their on-site nature reserve. The gabion cages supplied at cost price were used to build an outdoor classroom, enhancing student learning while also benefiting the local environment.
About Leigh Academy Rainham
Leigh Academy Rainham is a secondary school in Kent, committed to providing a broad and engaging education. The school places a strong emphasis on outdoor learning, sustainability, and enriching student experiences beyond the classroom.
About the Project
Leigh Academy Rainham has created an on-site nature reserve to enrich student learning and promote sustainability. As part of the development, an outdoor classroom was built using gabion cages filled with local stone. These provide practical seating, support lessons in subjects like geography, and offer a new habitat for wildlife on school grounds.
Comment From Leigh Academy Rainham
As part of our plan to develop our extra curricular offer and enhance student experience, we have developed our very own on-site nature reserve. As part of this project we had to carefully plan both sustainably and creatively to meet the needs of our current and future students. One of the key components was to establish an outdoor classroom through the use of gabion cages to form the basis of our seating. Wirefence were extremely responsive and helpful to assist us in selecting the best products to meet our needs. We ended up with 6x 2m cages which we filled with local kentish ragstone which looks amazing! The gabions not only form necessary seating but also will become a habitat for a variety of animals and also be used to demonstrate the ability to dissipate large bodies of water which help with our geography curriculum around coastal defences.
Matthew Mulvey, Head of Geography, Leigh Academy Rainham
Comment From Wire Fence
We were really pleased to support Leigh Academy Rainham with this project. It’s great to see our products being used in such a creative and educational way, helping both students and the local environment.
Erno Szabo, Technical Consultant at Wire Fence
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