Play Spaces
We provide daily opportunities for physical education, movement breaks, and safe places for play both indoors and outdoors. Because every child deserves to build physical health, confidence, stress relief, social skills, emotional regulation, and imagination through play.
Safe, spacious, and outdoor spaces for play are vital to a student’s well-being. We offer a variety of school campus indoor and outdoor options that are rare in an urban school without resorting to only publicly-accessible spaces.
School Playground
Opened in 2022, this private tree-shaded space features student-designed elements, including new trees, climbing equipment, turf field, game tables, built-in stage with seating, green roof gazebo, benches, and colorful murals.
The newly added green infrastructure elements — shade trees, living roof gazebo, permeable pavers, and synthetic turf areas — will capture approximately 430,000 gallons of stormwater each year, helping to reduce neighborhood flooding and improve the health of nearby New York Harbor.
The playground is open to the neighborhood during non-school and after-school program hours.
School Courtyard
Our large enclosed outdoor courtyard on 19th Street can support school-wide fitness and cultural programs. This is also our primary entrance for daily student drop-off and pickup.
Gym
Our multi-sport gymnasium features half-court basketball setup and age-appropriate recreation equipment.
Slope Park
This NYC Parks Department playground is next to our school playground on the same block (located on 6th Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets). Renovated in 1998, this playground features play and climbing equipment, safety surfacing, shade trees, benches, comfort station, spray showers, swings.
Prospect Park
Nine blocks away from PS 295, this 526-acre park’s sweeping green spaces and woodlands is the destination for our school’s annual Field Day in the spring. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the mid-19th century, "Brooklyn’s Backyard" is our neighborhood's flagship park, welcoming more than 10 million visits annually.
Movement Room
Every student has unique sensory needs. When those needs are met, they can play a large role in developing executive functioning skills and self-regulation skills. Movement and sensory input helps kids feel more centered and ready to learn. This specialized, open-format classroom is used by students at least three times a week, in addition to our in-school residencies that will also use the space.
