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Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Play at Worser Bay

We are incredibly lucky that despite our small size we have an amazingly rich environment for play. The courts for football and scootering, the trees for forts , reading and dreaming and all the nooks for hiding, and imagining. Creativity is on display where ever we look, invention and problem solving working in real time. This is of course, learning. Our juniours are capturing this as part of their programme on Mondays and this acknowledges the benefits of play. Play is thinking and discovery. On top of this is all of the amazing social learning which takes place in the playground. If you have the opportunity when you are next in the playground see if you can notice what is happening about you, in the spaces squeezed between corners, amongst the gardens and most astonishingly, in the trees.

Friday, 7 February 2020

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.