TG Escapes Blog
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 and business.
Clever Classrooms – Research from Salford University
Those of you who regularly read our blog, will be aware of our belief that natural daylight is not only good for us but that it also enhances the cognitive and behavioural function of a classroom’s occupants. Last month, the University of Salford published a research...
It’s the International Day of Happiness – How could you enjoy your garden more all year round?
Today is the International Day of Happiness and also the day that winter is officially over and we welcome spring into our lives again. The daffodils and primroses are taking up the slack as the snowdrops approach the end of their tenure, and woodland floors across...
Easter Serenity in your own Garden Annexe
Sing a song of sixpence A pocket full of rye Many free from (meat, dairy, gluten) varieties Baked in some pies When the pies were opened The littlies start to shout Yuk I’m not eating that While Gramps suggests a clout The aunts were in the dining room Bickering about...
Could a Garden Escape have been good for the heart during half term?
We are nearing the end of National Heart Month, designed to raise awareness of heart disease, its causes and its prevention. Along with poor diet and lack of exercise, one of the primary contributory factors is raised blood pressure. And one of the main culprits...
Conferences Coming Up
Matt is getting ready for a couple of conferences once half term is over, beginning with SBM Leaders Live 2015 on Tuesday 24th February at the Wembley Hilton in London. Organised by Optimus Education, in partnership with the National Association of School Business...
Beat the Energy Suppliers with an efficient Garden Room
The world oil price has plummeted by more than 50% since last June and wholesale costs to energy suppliers have been slashed. During the years of rising oil prices and costs, retail energy prices were very quick to respond, but are proving woefully sticky on the...
Getting Ready for Spring in the Garden
Day by day, dawn is rising ever earlier and dusk descending a little later. Daylight hours are on the up and if you brave the elements and take a stroll around your garden, you will find that nature’s pioneers are already leading the way into spring. Snowdrops are...
The Capita Early Years Provision Conference
At a time when the baby boom is in full swing and the Government are increasingly looking to the Early Years sector to address the issue of inequality of opportunity to fully develop every child’s potential, it is an incredibly exciting and dynamic time in which to be...
Is your New Year Resolution to keep fit?
Amongst the top 50 New Year resolutions are a desire to learn to knit, to break a world record and to have cosmetic surgery. But assuming you are not planning on radical facial reconstruction, followed by a prolonged recovery period during which you attempt to knit...
The Funny Things Kids Say at Christmas
The Learning Escape team know all too well what a busy time of year this is for teachers, so thought we’d offer some light relief, gathering together some of the funniest stories about children and their thoughts about Christmas. At a nativity play our young...
Happy Christmas
It hardly seems possible that another whole year is almost over, but we are most definitely hurtling towards 2015 with that lightning fast rapidity that the countdown to Christmas always creates. We hope that 2014 has been good to you all…we at the Garden Escape have...
Christmas guests are coming! A garden annexe could keep you smiling.
And the goose may well be getting fat, and stress levels are mounting as each new day brings us closer to the festive onslaught. Gifts to buy and wrap; cards to write and post; food and drink to be bought and cooked and….visitors to be accommodated, in every sense of...