School Marquees
Weatherproof Portable and Quick Shade Options provide outdoor UV protection and covered space for schools, offering pupils a safe environment to learn and play.
BIGTOP Shades provides shade solutions to schools, childcare centres, the education industry, kindergartens throughout Australia.
The Australian Government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) funding initiative for schools provides an unprecedented opportunity to increase or improve the quality of shade in your school.
Why is shade important?
Overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation during childhood and adolescence is known to be a major cause of skin cancer.
Two in three Australians will develop some form of skin cancer before the age of 70.
Cancer Councils recommend the use of shade as one of the five protection measures for UV radiation protection. Shade alone can reduce overall exposure to UV radiation by about 75%.
Building shade is an effective practical option for protecting students and staff against UV radiation.
Research shows that students will use shade if schools make it available. The findings give schools a strong incentive to build shade as part of their sun protection policies to help reduce students' risk of skin cancer.
What can BIGTOP Shades do to Help
Good planning ensures effective shade.Whatever the scale of the project, planning should include:
- understanding your shade options
- Reliable information about our Shade options
- Branding Options
Shade areas must provide protection in summer while maintaining a cool temperature. It should allow adequate light and ventilation. the shaded area also needs to be warm and allow some UV exposure for vitamin D in winter.
Rain protection
Schools often lack sufficient wet-weather shelter.
Portable structures that offer protection from both UV radiation
and rain can be helpful to overcome this issue.
School Bus Stops
Shade is often needed for waiting areas at school bus stops, particularly during summer. BIGTOP Portable Shade are ideal an Ideal Option.
School Sports and Presentation Days
Ideal way to provide all the health benefits to Student and Staff as well promote the school image.
BIGTOP can help to make yours a SunSafe school
FREECALL 1800 331 722 or 02 9428 3377 to find out more.
