The OPAL Primary Programme rationale is that “… better, more active and creative playtimes can mean happier and healthier children, and having happier, healthier, more active children usually results in a more positive attitude to learning in school, with more effective classroom lessons, less staff time spent resolving unnecessary behavioural problems, fewer playtime accidents, happier staff and a healthier attitude to life.”

Aims

In relation to play our school aims to:

• Ensure play settings provide a varied, challenging and stimulating environment.

• Allow children to take risks and use a common-sense approach to the management of these risks and their benefits.

• Provide opportunities for children to develop their relationships with each other.

• Enable children to develop respect for their surroundings and each other.

• Aid children’s physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual development.

• Provide a range of environments that will encourage children to explore and play imaginatively.

• Provide a range of environments that will support children’s learning across the curriculum and learning about the world around them.

• Promote independence and teamwork within children.

• Build emotional and physical resilience.

Introducing our Play Team