OPAL – Outdoor Play And Learning at Whale Hill
From September, we are really excited to be launching our OPAL scheme. An acronym for Outdoor Play And Learning, OPAL offers our children the chance to freely choose and engage with their play type. Whether that is creative play, rough and tumble play, dramatic play or object play, our children will have the opportunity to enjoy a stimulating and varied play environment.
Whilst we will be fully engaged with the scheme from September, you may have noticed we have started to use some of the items already, and our children are thoroughly enjoying their ‘Freedom Fridays’. This allows the children to use our full school site, and take advantage of lots of different opportunities around school. They are loving pushing, balancing on and rolling tyres; playing chess and small world play in our newly refurbished Year 2 area; chatting atop large cable reels; and using the Soft Play shapes to construct and build with.
Over the next year, our annual fundraising aim will be to raise money to buy more resource for OPAL, and this is a scheme that will evolve and grow as our children become more familiar with it.
Further information on our fundraising activities can be found by clicking here.
If you think you can help us in any way, or can be really creative with a pallet and a cable reel, please do get in touch. We would love to hear from you.
For more information about the OPAL scheme, and to answer some of the questions you may have, please visit OPAL – FAQ’s for Parents
Keep watching for lots of other lovely things happening as our lunchtime play develops over the upcoming months and years.
