Monksdown Primary School add Colourful Canopy

Enjoying an excellent reputation, Monksdown is at the heart of the Norris Green community - a Primary School for girls and boys aged between 3-11 years. Monksdown provides ''an outstanding level of care, guidance, support and provides a safe haven for pupils" - Ofsted 2007

Project Specification

Product: Motiva Shutter™
Steelwork:
- Sapphire Blue - RAL NO. 5003
Roof:
- Mint
- Daffodil
- Lagoon Blue
- Mandarin
- Foxglove

When Monksdown Primary School wanted us to design a colourful canopy even we didn’t envisage just how fabulously it would turn out. With coloured roofing and decals on the side panels, we think this is probably the most colourful canopy designed and built by anyone, anywhere!

Visual we created for Monksdown Primary School

The roller shutter doors add value by providing secure storage for play equipment overnight. We’ve also installed several other canopies with roller shutters at schools across the UK, including the shelter we added to Lacey Green School in Cheshire.

How regular exercise and outdoor play helps to keep children healthy and how we can facilitate this at home and in school

Our wellbeing is negatively affected by not getting enough exercise, creating increasing numbers of obesity in children and adolescents. Children are not playing outside as much as they have done in the past, limiting their contact with sunlight and thus the production of Vitamin D which helps to combat infection and keeps skin healthy. Sunlight also helps to regulate the creation of melatonin which regulates sleep. Smartphones emit harmful blue light, which can cause headaches and eye strain. Blue light in the evenings can even restrain the production of melatonin, which in turn can make falling asleep very difficult for some children.

Learn how schools can help their children spend more time outdoors over on our blog.

Find out about some of the other shade sails and shelter projects we have completed in Liverpool

Shade Sail Designed for St Andrew The Apostle Primary School

Our engineers made a sail structure for St Andrew The Apostle Primary School Halewood, Liverpool. The contract included two 4000mm X 4000mm Maxima™ tensile triangle shade cloth fabric sail structures.

Covered Walkway Canopy Installed at Taskers

In collaboration with a prestigious client A&S erected a curved roof canopy in Taskers – Hunts Cross Hunts Cross, Liverpool. Full details are: one Motiva™ Mono monopitch curved roof canopy measuring 27000mm X 3000mm and included for our Alu-Tuff™ aluminium box profile guttering and downpipes which were coated in a matching Dura-coat™ colour finish. The full contract involved one Motiva™ Mono monopitch curved roof canopy measuring 27000mm X 3000mm and included for our Alu-Tuff™ aluminium box profile guttering and downpipes which were coated in a matching Dura-coat™ colour finish.