# Option Defining Colours

June 18, 2018

Use colour to define, design, combine and streamline your play and sports areas.
Using different colours in Altitus sports and playground synthetic turfs bring drama and energy to schools, early learning centres and community sports centres.
Whatever the required use of the grounds, the range of colours available mean you can create the facility that is best for your community.

##### Kindy, Early Childhood Centres and Primary Schools

Colour is an essential building block of early childhood education; colours are the first stage in advancing childrens ability to understand abstract concepts. Bright, engaging playgrounds advance learning and health at this important stage of development.

##### Colour and shapes aid cognitive development in young children

Children see colour and shapes all around them from birth and are drawn to bright colours instinctively.
Learning about colour is a precursor to learning about the rest of their world, including more abstract concepts such as numbers and letters.
Altituss Kindy surfaces, developed especially for early childhood centres, can turn every area into an opportunity to learn.

##### Colourful TigerPlay defines play areas for pre-schools

Colour can define areas:

- Regular inspection of your lawn for moss or algae, especially in damp weather and in shaded areas.
- If you spray with chemicals, do use the correct rates and application method recommended by the manufacturer.
- The turf can be sprayed three monthly if necessary.
- TurfGuard is supplied by Altitus as the most effective and safe product to use on our landscape lawns. You can order this by telephone or email and we will have it delivered to you.

##### Preschool and primary teachers develop language by talking about colours

The colours the children first meet while playing on Altitus playgrounds also appear in their books, their toys and their play equipment.

Children associate them as being the same colour as the surface under the swings, near the door, or where the trikes are ridden.

Taiaotea Kindergarten used a clear green Altitus Envy landscape lawn with our TigerPad safety pad beneath in the swing area. The Envy lawn acts as a clear visual cue to make children aware of the swing area and are taught to wait at the edge of the green lawn for their turn on the swing, or to walk around the edge at a safe distance from the swings.

##### Altituss colours create safe, bright playground themes

Discoveries Early Learning Centre created a seaside theme with TigerPlay in blue, yellow and green colours that light up the outdoor playground. The various coloured areas can be used for different age groups, different activities, or as a setting for imaginative games.

The Discoveries Early Learning Centre had a TigerPad laid beneath the TigerPlay surface so that play equipment could be safely placed anywhere, depending on the daily teaching plan.

Use Altitus bright-coloured playground turfs to design imaginative graphics for games: chessboards, hop scotch, snakes and ladders, and clock faces are only some of the popular choices for school playgrounds

##### Altitus colour adds fun to sports and games in primary schools

The Lakes Primary School, South Morang, find the coloured surfaces are perfect for use in ball games such as four-square, quoits and padder tennis.

Ask your students what theyd like included in the Altitus playground and together youll come up with some fabulous designs that everyone feels proud of.

Using colour to create one court for several sports

When there are several sports to be accommodated and space is limited, multi-sport courts work brilliantly for school, community and home use.

With the clever use of colour, one multi-sport court can be used for several different sports.

- For durable, high performance hard courts for tennis, netball and basketball we generally use fibrillated turfs such as Classic, Tournament, and Elite which come in a range of different colour options.
- To produce durable, softer surfaces that are great for hockey, as well as being soft enough for recreational football, futsal and playgrounds, our texturised surfaces such as Wett Pro, Evo Pro, Trophy and Advantage use advanced monofilament technology in a range of strong colours defining the different sporting codes while combining them into one area

Spotswood College and Freyberg High School use bold colours in dashing green and blue to define the hockey pitch and the courts.

Red, yellow and white turf lines differentiate the markings of the full-size hockey pitch, and the four courts for tennis, netball and basketball.

A Altitus running track in a warm, terracotta brick colour border the facilities, streamlining the synthetic turfs in one efficient multi-sport area.

Portable goals and tennis nets make it easy to set up a practice session for any of the above sports within a short time.

##### Multi-coloured synthetic turfs create vibrant, multi-purpose facilities for community sports centres

##### Multi-sport tennis courts for families

Private court owners are also seeing the benefits of using colour in their courts. The trend from traditional green or blue tennis courts to colourful multi-sports courts is growing as families see the advantages of courts that can accommodate a variety of sports. Hockey, netball, tennis, volleyball and parties the court will be used all year for family games and serious skill building.

" The turf installed by Altius Sports provides a truly world-class surface for various sports ranging from football, badminton, volleyball, cricket, athletics to kabaddi and kho kho. It serves as a giant water harvesting plant, doing great service to the community by replenishing the water table season by season. Goes without saying that it has transformed our ever balding and difficult to maintain green patch into a delightfully inviting, dust free zone that everyone rushes to given any free moment. "

Meenakshi Sahni

Principal - Modern School Vasant Vihar

" We have no doubt that their work has contributed very positively to the vision that we are at the DSK Dream City Pune have for the future of developments of sports in India. "

Brig S.K.Sharma

Director & CEO - DSK Dream City

" Altius Sports has been more than a business partner for Paro Football Club. We are deeply thankful to them for fully committing their time and resources to complete our project on time and in budget. Moreover, they have helped the club further by sponsoring the kit used by the club players. I wish them all the best in their future endeavors and have every confidence that they will keep growing because of their dedication to customer service, their willingness to go the extra mile and for always prioritizing customer satisfaction over their bottom line. "

Karma Jigme

President - Paro Football Club, Bhutan

" Congratulations to Altius Sports on completing 10 successful years! Their TigerTurf, installed at our Naval Tata Hockey Academy, Jamshedpur,is really helping our players to improve their technique and playing skills. The turf is fast and pushes the players to learn to play a fast game. Another important thing is that the pitch holds water very long, helping us conserve water and contribute our bit to the environment.Having got our FIH Global certificate renewed till 2021 recently, we are happy with the quality of the pitch and hope to continue our successful association with Altius Sports in the coming years. "

Neelam Babardesai

Head of Sports - Tata Trusts

"The American International School Dhaka contracted Altius Sports to do our renovation project on our soccer field. The timeline for completion was followed very closely and final deadlines were met. The school is very happy with the work Altius Sports did and everyone enjoys the field. The new turf meets our standards and the drainage system works much better than our previous field. We had huge storms with a great deal of rain over a 2 day period and the drainage worked beautifully as the rain water was absorbed without puddles on the field."

Steve Herrera

Superintendent - American International School Dhaka, Bangladesh

"Lincoln Schools partnership with Altius Sports has helped change the face of our campus and given our students opportunities to participate in a wealth of sports and activities on our multi-sport surfaces. Our all-weather turf football field was installed in 2016 and performs as well as it did on day one. Additionally, our multi-sport outdoor court helps students perform in sports like tennis, basketball, futsal and volleyball. In sum, the facilities have given us the freedom, flexibility and tools to help develop our students skills in a safe and highperforming environment."

Luke Davis

Director of Advancement - Athletics & Aquatics, Lincoln School, Nepal

"Altius Sports had installed TigerTurf at Jio World Garden in the year 2014 -15, which is one of the largest installations of its kind. The quality of the turf is excellent and we have hosted a lot of different types of events some even involving movement of cranes (with due protection) on the turf. The quality and workmanship of installation is excellent. We wish Altius Sports the very best"

Rajmal Nahar

Senior Executive Vice President - Reliance Industries Limited

" I would like to place on record our appreciation for the sports surfacing provided by Altius Sports for the basketball, tennis and multi courts in the campus which has ensured enthusiastic participation by the students and a good sporting atmosphere. On completion of 10 successful years by Altius Sports, we wish them great success in future endeavours and are very pleased to have been a part of their journey. "

Alok Chandra

Chief Administrative Officer - IIM Calcutta

" At the American International School Chennai (AISC), we see learning spaces as the third teacher. Since 2012, Altius Sports has been our mission-aligned partner on the re-design and renovation of gymnasiums, playgrounds, a running track, soccer pitches, turf tennis courts, and the list goes on. At AISC, we prepare students for the future and Altius Sports has helped us make that possible. "

Andrew A. Hoover

Head of School - American International School Chennai

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