School yard

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under school yard (disambiguation) .

The school yard or playground is a place near the school building . It serves the students in the classroom breaks as residence, movement and play area . In addition to districts with a playground-like character for younger students, there are also often sports facilities such as a football or basketball field.

School yard of a school in Germany

School yard design

Safety-related design

Since a large proportion of school accidents (around 30 percent) happen in the school yard, the surface, play equipment , plants , driveways, etc. must meet certain safety requirements. This schoolyard design is planned by landscape architects and partially implemented with students and teachers . The legally binding regulation for this is the Guideline for Schools - Construction and Equipment of the Statutory Accident Insurance (GUV 16.3).

Game educational design

The educational game design extends beyond the safety-related one. Innovative school administrators allow their students - mostly in the context of school projects - their schoolyard into an attractive game landscape embody. In the vicinity of university cities, you can count on scientific advice from university lecturers and the personal, methodical and organizational support of student teachers or trainee teachers.

Green schoolyards

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  Germany

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  Luxembourg

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  new York

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  Indonesia

literature

• Evelyn Lautz: Redesign of the school yard of the Rastatt-Ottersdorf elementary school to make it suitable for children and physical activity. An interdisciplinary project. Scientific state examination work GHS, Karlsruhe 2000.
• Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Designing play landscapes. In: Dies .: The sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th updated edition, Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, ISBN 978-3-8340-1664-5 .

Web links

Commons : Schoolyards  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Schoolyard  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Link collection for the design of school buildings and playgrounds

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Shaping play landscapes. In: Dies .: The sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th updated edition, Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, pp. 197–209.
2. ↑ Evelyn Lautz: Redesign of the schoolyard of the Rastatt-Ottersdorf elementary school to make it suitable for children and exercise. An interdisciplinary project. Scientific state examination work GHS, Karlsruhe 2000.