Meeting with the wonderful team at Suez, who are helping schools to make their playtimes excellent by providing a range of recycled loose parts.
A great session with Moira Barnes upskilling the North East team and exploring how we can improve our communications with schools across the region.
Thank you to everyone for visiting our stand to say hello and let us know how your OPAL journey is coming along!
Attending the Primary Heads Conference in Windermere to hear from schools that are on their OPAL journey and meet others that are excited to start.
A day full of brainstorming, training and partnership work to ensure our mentors provide the very best offer to schools.
We collaborate with Suez to provide schools with recycled items for play. Suez has an educational resource centre and provides training days for primary schools.
Case study: Esh Winning Primary School, Durham “Providing a rich play environment allows the children to develop skills and evaluate their own risks. Our playground is a hive of activity which aids the wellbeing of our children.” Prior to OPAL, play was very different at Esh Winning Primary. …
“I cannot emphasise how incredible it is seeing our children from Reception to Year 4 actively playing and engaging with each other.” Before OPAL, we thought our playtimes were fun times. Over the last year or so, we had invested in playground equipment and this was available for the …
Every year, the North East hosts the Celebration of Play Awards. In 2019, Angela received a certificate of achievement for ‘overcoming her fear of mess’.