‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
📰 The Guardian · 📅 May 21, 2026, 02:00 PM · 🌐 theguardian.com
When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside spaceThe play area at St John’s Church of England primary in Barnet, north London, used to flood so severely it was often unusable. “It would get so bad that th