OPAL North East celebrates 10 years of improving children’s lives through play.
OPAL continues to grow in the North East as more schools in the region achieve their awards.
Bowburn Primary School gets media mention for OPAL Gold Award achievement.
Lingey House Primary School received a fantastic gift to make their OPAL playtimes even more amazing.
Thomlinson Junior School in Wigton hit the headlines of the News and Star.
The school’s recent OPAL Platinum Award was celebrated in The Chronicle.
“OPAL has become a huge part of our school culture. Children are extremely appreciative of having it and say they feel very lucky.” Before OPAL, we had a lot of children who were bored and many who struggled to interact and make friendships. Children who enjoy physical activities, like …
Behaviour issues at lunchtime are very few and far between. It’s as if they don’t have time to argue anymore because they are too busy playing! Before OPAL, there wasn’t a great deal for the children to do. Football tended to dominate the yard and often led to disagreements …
“Behaviour has improved greatly; our children have more to do and are therefore kept busy.” Before OPAL, our playtimes were very basic. Children couldn’t always access the field in all weathers and our yard was just a concrete square with two basketball hoops and a box of PE resources. …
The North East team was delighted to attend the launch of this important report.