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14 Aug 2025
Playgrounds inspected and repaired by WGS School Grounds Maintenance Teams
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School’s Out – Now Is The Time For Your School Grounds Maintenance

As the final bell rings and students rush out for the summer holidays, schools across the UK breathe a temporary sigh of relief. But for facilities teams and site managers, this is the perfect window of opportunity for essential school grounds maintenance. With the playgrounds quiet and sports fields free from daily footfall, now is the time to get your grounds in top shape for the return in September.

At Wessex Grounds Services, we specialise in school grounds maintenance and understand the critical role that a clean, safe, and welcoming outdoor environment plays in a student’s school life. Whether it’s preparing pristine sports pitches, trimming overgrown hedges, or ensuring hard surfaces are hazard-free, the summer break is our busiest—and most productive—time of year.

Why Are School Holidays the Best Time for Grounds Work

∙Uninterrupted Access: Without students or staff on site, we can carry out major works safely and more efficiently. 
∙Better Weather Conditions: Summer typically offers more predictable weather, ideal for turf work, tree surgery, and outdoor repairs. 
∙Time for Improvements, Not Just Maintenance: Want to install a new outdoor classroom area? Refresh a tired sensory garden? Reseed your playing fields? Summer gives you the time and space to do it right.
 

Our School Grounds Services Include: 

∙Lawn and field mowing, strimming, and edging 
∙Weed and moss control on paths and hard surfaces
∙Tree inspections, pruning, and removal 
∙Playground inspections and surface maintenance 
∙Hedge and shrub trimming 
∙Line marking for sports and playground games 
∙Shed erection, shelters, etc
 

Safety and Compliance First

All of our team members are DBS-checked and trained in school-specific health and safety protocols. We know how important safeguarding is, and we work closely with the school site
managers to ensure our operations are fully compliant and minimally disruptive.
 
For more detailed guidance on maintaining safe and compliant school environments, you can refer to the Good Estate Management for Schools guidelines published by the UK Department for Education.
 

Plan Now, Be Ready Later 

Avoid leaving preparations to the last minute—the start of a new academic year sets the tone for the months ahead. First impressions are important not only for visitors, Ofsted inspectors, or governors, but also for the pupils and staff who return expecting a clean, welcoming, and safe environment.

If the summer holidays slip by before you’ve had a chance to get everything in place, there’s no need to worry—simply book us in for the October half-term to ensure your premises are ready.

Let us help you start the year strong. 

📞 Contact us today to book your Summer/Autumn maintenance slots or arrange a site visit. 

01 May 2024
Robotic line marker
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Is your pitch ready for Summer?

After an extremely wet winter is your pitch in shape to take the summer use? Before you start to mark out cricket squares and athletics tracks you need to first check that your ground is prepared and can take the spring/summer usage.

Spring pitch makeovers can be an essential part of pitch maintenance. It matters as pitches during the winter season get compacted and become airless. They also lose fertility and grass cover is diminished often getting replaced by weeds and moss.

The solution involves deep-tine to restructure and aerate the soil, fertilising the soil to encourage root and shoot growth, overseeding to improve grass cover and finally slit, scarify, brush and light rolling to correct the minor deviations.

When should a Spring pitch makeover happen? As soon as the play finishes in April/early May because unless you are fortunate enough to have an irrigated pitch the soil can dry out and therefore germination of grass seed will be less effective.

Wessex Grounds Services is here to help and is also the RFU’s ground maintenance contractor for Dorset. If you would like further information regarding any of the above then please don’t hesitate to contact us – enquiries@wessexgroundsservices.co.uk

Once your ground is prepared then why not get Wessex Grounds service to come and mark out the summer sports? We now have a robotic liner that uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) to paint accurate precise lines. It works across various surfaces. Your initial line marking is the most important as from there forward to can always go over them with your machines afterwards if your budget is tight.

If you have 3/4G pitches then how do you maintain them? These types of pitches need regular brushing and decompacting. If regular maintenance is not carried out then the damage to the artificial fibres is likely. The infill will also be inconsistent across the pitch. This will result in poor performance, inconsistent bounce and unsafe levels of grip which may in turn result in a greater number of injuries.

For more information please phone Amanda on 07795 515 864 or email enquiries@wessexgroundsservices.co.uk