Playtimes -The Opal Project
OPAL
Your school has decided that play is amazing, important, fun and good for children in so many ways. They are one of hundreds of schools that are using the OPAL Outdoor Play and Learning programme. Play takes up a significant amount of time, in fact it is equivalent to 1.4 years of a child’s primary school life.
Play makes up 20% of school life.
Per Year 231 hours
37 days
7.4 weeks
The benefits of play are broad:
✓ Health and wellbeing
✓ Early childhood development
✓ Cognitive development
✓ Physical activity & literacy
✓ Mental health
✓ Emotional wellbeing
✓ Social development
✓ Learning about risk and challenge
✓ Play as therapy
✓ Resilience and character
Documentation
Ground Plan
OPAL in action
