Global Play Day 2021

Unstructured play is recognised as an important part of developing social, collaborative and problem-solving skills for children. We celebrated Global Play Day on Friday 5th February. Our students enjoyed playing games with each other. It was interesting to see how they used their imaginations!

We spent half of the day playing at the beach and half of the day playing at school. We asked: Where is the best place to play? School or the beach? What do you think? 

Global Play Day 2020

Unstructured play is recognised as an important part of developing social, collaborative and problem-solving skills for children. We celebrated Global Play Day on Friday 7th February. Our students enjoyed playing games with each other. It was interesting to see how they used their imaginations to invent new games.

Before we started our students set 2 goals. One was linked to manaakitanga and the other was about creativity. We also spent time playing with other students across the school.

We invite you to watch this excellent TED talk by Dr. Peter Gray, Professor of psychology and researcher at the University of Boston on the importance of unstructured play for children’s wellbeing if you’d like to find out more.

Global Play Day 2019

Today we took part in Global Play Day. 

In 2019, 535,690 from 72 nations played. In his TEDx lecture, Peter Gray clearly argues the case that today's kids do not grow up playing and this has negatively impacted them in many ways. It's time we return the gift of play to this generation.

Students were given the provocations:

• Playing is serious business!
• Play without rules is war!
• I get to choose who and what I am when l play.

This morning we put ourselves on a continuum. We were asked the provocation, "Playing is a serious business!"

We were amazed with what the kids came up with...

Yoichi: Play without rules is war depending on the game. play day was fun.

Hanna: I had a fun time on Friday. I wish we could have play day every day. We had so much fun.

Nikora: I don’t really think playing is serious business because games are usually make believe. It depends what game you're playing but playing without rules is not usually bad. I think if you are playing a game that is make believe you can be whatever you want.

Nye: I don’t think that playing is serious because you are usually imagining so nothing seems serious it seems more like fun.

Izar: I played with Toby (the teddy bear) and got him really dirty. I played cops and robbers. I did a walk & talk ( it is when we just walk & talk.)

Nuala: I made a fort with my friends then it fell on us. We made a wolf den and played wolves. Nicola pretended to be a squirrel and Molly, the wolf, chased her. Then she tried to hide in a fort that she found. She didn't fit properly then she discovered that she was in the wolf den and was surrounded by all of the wolves.

Evie: I learnt how to share my toys and other people learnt how to share their toys back.

Eva: Today was a fun day because I played the whole day. I had a good time playing with the pickles and some others. We played Mafia, ditches and cops and robbers. I was surprised that our friend group actually dressed up as boys! There was something interesting about the day and that was that I kind of missed learning things in a normal way.

Kate: I was surprised with all the different games that people played.

Global Play Day

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” ~ Plato

We celebrated Global Play Day on Friday 9th February. 388, 493 participants took part across the world. Our students enjoyed playing games with each other. It was interesting to see how they used their imaginations to invent new games.

Before we started our students set 2 goals. One was linked to manaakitanga and the other was about creativity.

We also spent time playing with other students across the school.

Find out more: http://www.globalschoolplayday.com/

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