Mary Jackson is Head of Education and Communities at Learning through Landscapes. She has a background in both education and landscape architecture and has been working in the school grounds sector for more than 25 years, most of that time being with Learning through Landscapes, the national school grounds, outdoor learning and play charity. She is co-founder of the International School Grounds Alliance and has been fortunate to visit many school grounds projects and organisations around the globe seeing different ways school grounds have been developed both in the UK and internationally.