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The playground sound system children run themselves.
Waterproof and built for unsupervised play, so it lives indoors or out, and powered by our Power Mixer, which harvests the sun and the wind. Children choose what plays; teachers set what's on offer and how loud.
Your school's own sounds
A category for every part of the school day
Load it with whatever suits your school, organised into categories: music, stories, prayers, poems, birdsong. Changing the category takes seconds at the unit, so each part of the day can sound different.
Arrival
Birdsong
A calm dawn chorus as children arrive
Assembly
Prayers
The school's own prayers, read aloud
Literacy
Poems
The poems a class is learning this term
Lunchtime
Music
Music the children love, for lunchtime
Home time
Stories
An audiobook chapter to end the day
An example day. Name categories however you like, and fill them with music, speech or sound effects.
For children
Theirs to run
Tap to start. The power button turns it on.
PrevPrevious track
Play / StopStart or stop
NextNext trackChildren switch it on, play, skip and go back on their own, no adult needed. They cannot change the category: a teacher sets that.
For teachers
You stay in charge
Staff choose which category is playing and set the volume limit, at the unit itself. Hold the power button and the pads become your controls.
No phone, no app, nothing to log in to. The volume limit holds whoever is tapping the pads, so it stays where you set it all day.
Set up and running
Set up once
- To change the sounds, staff join the unit's own password protected WiFi from a phone, tablet or laptop. Nothing to install, no internet needed.
- Create categories and upload up to 64 tracks in each.
- Runs on power from our Power Mixer, and does not work without one. Nothing for staff to charge, and it switches itself off when nobody is using it.
Sound Mixer needs a Power Mixer. It is wired to the Power Mixer battery and has no power source of its own, so the two are installed together. The school loads its own sounds under its own music licence.
Specification
STEM
- Children run it themselves, building independence and turn taking
- Categories a school fills itself, from poems a class is learning to the school's own prayers
- Supports listening, spoken language and the wider curriculum through sound
- Demonstrates renewable energy doing a visible, everyday job
- Teachers keep control of content and volume without a phone or an app
Construction
- Four illuminated touch pads: power, previous, play and stop, next
- E‑paper display showing the category and track
- Waterproof enclosure, suitable for installation indoors or outdoors
- Up to 64 tracks in each category, uploaded as MP3
- Its own password protected WiFi for staff, no internet required
- A volume limit set by staff and held whoever presses the pads
- Wired directly to the Power Mixer battery, with its own power management, so it plays whether the Power Mixer is awake or asleep
- Switches itself off when nobody is using it
Suitable for
- Primary school playgrounds and outdoor classrooms
- Unsupervised play, with staff keeping control of content and volume
- Installed alongside a Power Mixer, which supplies all its power. Sound Mixer does not operate without one
- Part of the Eco Classroom Outdoor programme, delivered in partnership with The Hideout House Company
The playground sound system children run themselves.
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