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Hortus Infinitus
A Sensory Garden Classroom
Designer: Tony Smith
Sponsor: Hortus Infinitus
Contractor: Hortus Infinitus
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Tony Smith, ex-tennis player for Surrey and Dunlop model, creates ‘outdoor classrooms’ for schools around Surrey and his entry is an example of a garden that will be rebuilt at Banstead Junior School in Surrey after the show.
The Sensory Garden Classroom (SGC) is a garden within which are one or more outdoor classrooms. This aims to improve the school environment aesthetically and provides an environment which enables the teacher to extend their teaching in ways not possible in a conventional classroom. The show garden 
takes the form of a Greek theatre (Ancient Greece is studied at Key Stage 2, 7-11 years, as part of the National Curriculum) built from reclaimed bricks and limestone. This is within a bank planted with cypress trees and other Mediterranean plants that the Ancient Greeks would have recognised.
The children sit on limestone seating, shaded by olive trees, from where they can watch the play or listen to their teacher. Drought-tolerant and pest-resistant plants will be used and mulched with limestone to give the impression of a Greek hillside. The school children will make costumes and cushions and perform plays in the garden at the show.