Current schools: OPAL school visit - Banks Road Infant School

Play makes up 20% of children's primary school life. How do schools plan for this 20%? What are the roles of the play team?

How do we develop our best teams? How can playtime support us to foster our school's values in all our children - resilience, courage, tenacity, kindness? How do children get their playthings out and put them away? What are the solutions to foxes and sandpits?

See for yourself what an amazing playtime looks like at Banks Road Infant School.

Agenda

11am-12pm OPAL schools networking

Discuss your journey with other OPAL school colleagues - share your successes, top tips and ways to overcome some of the challenges.

12pm-1pm Observation of playtime

Come and see a platinum OPAL playtime in action - ask the children about how they manage risk and the grown-ups about the changes they have seen.

About Banks Road Infant School

Banks Road Infant School is 12 months into the OPAL Primary Programme and is showcasing some of the best urban (no field) play in the East Midlands.The school is also demonstrating an incredible wider focus on play, with continuous provision throughout KS1, full nursery integration within their OPAL provision, and two-hour lunch breaks on a Friday!

If you want to see OPAL in action on a small site with no field, Banks Road is perfect. Whether it’s building dens, making mud pies, mud sliding (if it’s raining), playing in the sandpit or simply being tucked away in the reading shed, every child at Banks Road is engaged in amazing play that they have chosen.

Additional information

We will be indoors and outdoors; please come dressed whatever the weather. OPAL schools play outdoors in all weathers.

Refreshments will be provided.

On-street parking is available.

Only two tickets per school. If you can no longer come, please let us know so we can release your place to another school.