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.
Half Term Bucket List
It is so easy to take our children’s childhood for granted and forget that they will not be young forever. Yet each day they grow older, and in the blink of an eye the time will come when they fly the nest. So don’t spend half term stressing about who to farm them out...
Half Term Homework Ideas…Outside
We recently talked about taking lessons outside during this fantastic autumn we’re currently enjoying, and thought you might like to consider setting some outside homework projects for half term. Here are just a few ideas to mull over. Bird feeding and watching Pine...
Beat the weather with energy efficient Garden Rooms
After our great summer, which culminated in a wonderful September (the driest on record), autumn seems to have arrived with rather a jolt. As the nights grow longer than the days in the Northern Hemisphere, the temperature contrast between the Equator and the North...
Free School Meals for KS1 Half a Term Later
Are you one of the many schools who decided to use a hub kitchen or private contractor to provide meals for your KS1 pupils? Now that we are almost at the end of the first half term of the Government initiative, are you finding the process of externally sourcing meals...
Get outside for World Mental Health Day
As this Friday is World Mental Health day, we thought it represents a good opportunity to think about the mental well-being of children in Britain today and to explore ways in which it can be improved, in an environment where public mental health funding is sadly...
World Mental Health Day 10th October
Organised by the Mental Health Foundation, World Mental Health Day is an annual global celebration of mental health education, awareness and advocacy. The organisation aims to change our understanding of mental health problems and improve the future outlook for the...
10 Jobs To Do In The Garden In October
We have been blessed with a gloriously warm and sunny September, but autumn is stealthily asserting itself. Leaves are starting to turn and fall, nights are drawing in and mornings growing ever chillier, so it’s time to dust down your rakes, carry on harvesting and...
The Garden Escape after-care team help with autumn tree fall damage
Autumn is a magical time of year: the sounds, the smells and the sights of fruit laden hedgerows and trees. All set against the backdrop of leaves on the turn as the sunlight hours wane. The evenings drawing in, the chill in the mist laden morning air and the wildlife...
The Learning Escape are in conference season.
As schools across the country get into the stride of the new academic year, we too at the Learning Escape are looking forward to a busy period of exhibiting at a number of conferences in the coming week or so. We kick off with the School Business Manager Conference on...
Smart lighting control gives brilliantly lit classrooms without costing the planet
Two issues lie at the very heart of The Learning Escape ethos: education and environmentalism. Those of you that know us, will understand how hard we strive to provide the very best teaching environments: a significant element of which is the quantity and quality of...
Is a Granny Annexe the answer for The Sandwich Generation?
In our modern, busy lives, how we can ensure that we get the very best out of our relationship with aging family members? For, as the wise old bird Eleanor Roosevelt once commented: “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of...
Rosendale Allotments
Last year, The Commercial Escape were delighted to be appointed by the Rosendale Allotment Association to build a long awaited community building, following their very much deserved National Lottery grant award. Tucked away behind the houses of Dulwich since 1908, the...