School grounds maintenance in Earlswood

Fields, hedges and paths for Earlswood schools, planned around lessons, break times and holidays.

Earlswood has schools on St John’s Road and Brambletye Park Road, and St John’s School takes its name from sitting opposite the church in the St Johns conservation area. School grounds maintenance in Earlswood has to fit around that school day: drop-off traffic on residential streets, children on the field at break, and grass that won’t wait for the holidays.

We cut fields and verges, keep boundary hedges in check, keep paths clear of overhanging growth and look after the corners nobody else gets to. Noisy work is planned for when pupils aren’t outside, and bigger jobs go into half-terms and the summer break.

Playing fields on clay that stays wet

The ground around Earlswood Common is clay with impeded drainage, and grass on that sort of soil stays soft long into spring. Mowing a soaked field leaves ruts that catch ankles for the rest of the term, so we don’t. We wait for it to firm up, then cut it properly. In summer the same clay bakes hard and cracks, and leaving the grass a little longer keeps the field covered for sports day instead of patchy and brown.

School grounds maintenance contracts, safeguarding and holidays

We work to your safeguarding procedures: signing in at reception, wearing visitor badges and keeping to the areas agreed with your site manager. Term-time visits are booked for before school, after school or when classes are inside. For the contract itself, you get a written annual schedule and a fixed price invoiced monthly or quarterly, with an itemised quote. Holiday work, like cutting back an overgrown boundary or clearing a neglected corner, is quoted separately so it’s easy to budget for.

Schools and academies in Earlswood: your questions

Anything else, just ring. You’ll speak to the people who do the work.

Can you do the big jobs in the holidays?

Yes, that’s the best time. Half-terms and the summer break are when we cut back boundaries, clear overgrown areas and do anything that needs the site empty.

Do you look after nursery and infant sites?

Yes. Nursery and infant sites need the same care: tidy paths, safe edges and nothing left lying around after we’ve gone. We’ll fit visits around your session times, and school garden maintenance jobs, like raised beds or a sensory garden, are welcome too.

Can you quote against our current school grounds maintenance contract?

Yes. Send us the specification and we’ll price it line by line, so you can compare like with like.

Can you keep the field usable through a wet spring?

We can’t dry clay out, but we can avoid making it worse. That means no mowing on soaked ground, a high first cut as soon as it firms up, and steering the mower round worn goalmouths until they’ve dried out.