TG Escapes Blog – Education
The latest articles from the TG Escapes team. Read on to keep up to date on the latest innovations and stories in the world of modular eco building for education.
2019 Conferences and Events
The TG Escapes team will be attending and exhibiting at a number of conferences this coming year. If you happen to be attending please be sure to come along and say hi. Matt always has some chocolate delights waiting. If you would like to make an appointment with one...
SCHOOL MYOPIA: A SILENT EPIDEMIC – Why Natural Light and Time Outdoors Can Help
Over the last 30 years short sightedness, or myopia, has become a global health problem. For example, nearly every child now leaving secondary school in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and elsewhere in East Asia needs glasses or contact lenses to see clearly. Ten per...
10 Tips for Creating Engaging Outdoor Learning and Play Environments
Effective outdoor learning, through purposeful and planned experiences in the outdoors, is an essential part of life for children of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Whether academic or social development, or improving their physical and mental health and...
Opening of SEN Eco-classroom at The Shires
The Shires special education school (part of The Acorn Group) in Oakham celebrate the opening of their new SEN Eco-classroom by TGEscapes.
6 Popular Uses for a Modular Building
Whilst many customers choose TG Escapes to build additional learning space, our bespoke, turnkey capability means our modular buildings fulfil a diverse range of other functions. The highly flexible, architect designed, biophilic buildings offer a beautiful,...
What makes a good learning space
Whilst the practise and method of teaching are essential to the success of engaging pupils and stimulating learning, it must also be remembered that the very environment in which the learning process takes place can have a huge impact on children and how well they can...
4 Analogue Ways to Engage Digitally Distracted Children
Today’s young people cannot begin to imagine the world before the internet, the i-phone or the selfie. However, there is a growing body of evidence that the sheer power of the machines in every teenager’s hand or pocket (and a great many younger children), the...
Generation Z need help with their mental health NOW
FACT- 1 in 10 British children aged 5 to 16 has a clinically diagnosable mental health problem. FACT- 75% of young British people with a mental health problem are not receiving treatment. FACT- 75% of British adults with a mental illness started experiencing...
What is biophilic design and what benefits does it offer?
“A love of life and the living world; the affinity of human beings for other life forms.” Biophilic design is a series of principles that connect buildings to the natural world, aiming to create healthier, more pleasant interior environments for occupants, while...
Eight Reasons To Take Learning Outside
As children increasingly spend their free time inside indulging in ever more screen-based, sedentary pastimes, their physical and mental well-being has fallen into decline. Fitness levels are falling, obesity is on the rise and mental health is suffering, to name just...
Eco friendly tips in the classroom
School buildings are one of the biggest collective consumers of energy and, conversely, one of the largest generators of waste and pollution in our economy. In addition, largely due to the age of many of our school buildings, internal environmental conditions are...
Have you considered spreading your modular school build over multiple stages? Take a look at this three phase project at Woolwich Polytechnic.
Woolwich Polytechnic Is a school that has been on the up for some years now. Situated in one of London’s less gentrified locations, it has long enjoyed a good reputation for the quality of its pastoral care and, in more recent times, the impact of clever,...