NEW interest schools: OPAL school visit - Willow Farm Primary, Nottingham

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 Willow Farm Primary School.

1 1:45am Arrive

12pm Observation of playtime

Come 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.

1pm OPAL introduction meeting

Hear about Willow Farm Primary School's OPAL journey and learn more about the OPAL Primary Programme.

2pm Close

Willow Farm started their OPAL journey just over 15 months ago and are already offering some of the highest standards of play in the East Midlands. The level of purposeful engagement of every child at playtime is awe-inspiring. Whether it is making smoothies in the messy cafe, building dens in the woodland or slacklining between the trees, running and jumping across cable reels, rolling your mate down a slope on a scooter, zooming around in the wheel zone in a pushchair, dancing on the pallet stage to their favourite tunes, or making tennis ball runs out of old guttering, there is not a single child not doing something fun, that they have intrinsically chosen to do!

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

The school will provide tea and coffee.

The car park is small, so please park on the street outside.

We keep numbers small so please do sign up soon. Only 2 tickets per schools please. Also if you can no longer come do let us know so we can release your place to another school.

Host or Publisher OPAL Outdoor Play and Learning CIC