School grounds maintenance in Brockham

Field mowing, boundary hedges and holiday tidy-ups, planned around lessons and playtimes.

School grounds maintenance in Brockham means working around children. The village’s school is the Brockham site of North Downs Primary School on Wheelers Lane, one of three sites alongside Betchworth and Leigh. It became an academy in April 2025, as part of the EveryChild Partnership Trust.

We cut fields and verges, keep boundary hedges in check and clear paths, and plan the noisy work for when pupils are in lessons or away. Bigger jobs, like cutting back an overgrown boundary, go into half-terms or the summer holidays.

Playing fields on Weald Clay

Geological mapping shows Wheelers Lane on Weald Clay mudstone, with no gravel layer on top. That matters for a playing field. Clay fields stay wet well into spring, so mowing has to wait for a dry spell, and a field mown wet in March stays rutted and muddy for weeks. In summer clay sets hard and cracks, so we lift the cutting height through June and July rather than shave it.

The edges need watching too. Boundary hedges grow hard on clay, and a hedge leaning over the footpath outside the gate is the first thing parents notice at pick-up. We cut those in the holidays where we can, with the main work kept outside nesting season.

A school grounds maintenance contract that fits the school year

We write the schedule around your term dates: regular cuts in term time, hedges outside the nesting season, leaf clearance from playgrounds and paths in autumn, and project days in the holidays. You get a fixed annual price invoiced monthly or quarterly, and insurance certificates on request. We follow your sign-in and safeguarding procedures on every visit. If the trust already has a specification for its other schools, we’ll price against that.