Some year 2 visitors thoughts

We loved all the work the year 1 children have done, we especially liked the poems!

Good luck year 1 with the competion.

Please read our comments about the year 1 childrens work, perhaps

you could tell us what you wished for to make your playground an

even better place.

Playground Partnership

Thank you for visiting our blog, we will update this blog regularly so keep an eye out for your child's work!We have been given a rare opportunity to show off our children’s work by way of a national competition. The prize is ₤10,000 to spend on playground equipment. Our children need to ‘own’ the entry; therefore we have planned two weeks of focused activities with this theme. This will give the children an opportunity to research, plan and evaluate what activities they would like to spend the money on to improve our playground.Some children have already decided a climbing frame would be great fun! And others would like a trampoline!

Please find time to look at our work and leave us your thoughts.If you and your family have some playground activities you would like to tell us about. then be sure to leave a comment!.scroll to the bottom of this page to read others comments.

Making Models

We used building materials to make models of our favorite playground activities.

We drew our playtime actvity wish

I would like a playhouse, with a dressing up chest in!






We would like a climbing frame with a climbing wall and slide. We could put it in the middle of our racing track. We could play look out from the top!

Our playtime poems!

In our literacy class we wrote our own playtime rhymes.

Do you have a playtime poem you would like to share?

Leave it in our comment box!

Our wish plan

The children were given a A3 map of the playground, they drew the activity they wished for.

Many children wish for a climbing frame and a playhouse. keep your eye on this blog to find out what the children finally decide upon.

Playtime poems

We wrote a poem with the theme "playtime"

We copied our poems to microsoft word, we changed the colour and size of our writing.

We inserted a picture from clip art.

Our poems have been put on our "playground partnership display" in our school hall.

Music and singing

Class 9 were thinking about poetry, they used a poem all about playtime to practice with their friends. They used musical instruments to help with the rhythm. Once they practiced this, they said their poem in front of their friends.




Look out for our own playtime poems later in this blog!

Measuring

In maths we needed to get the measurements of the playground, we worked with our friends, this helped as we could check each others work.

We used metre sticks and metre wheels, one of use measured whilst the other recorded.

When we got back to our classroom we transferred the measurements onto a plan.

Practice Budgets

In maths, we practiced working to a budget. we picked which activities we would like, then we worked out if we had enough money.

Our playground now

Our children spent time drawing the playground as it is now.

Our playground paintings

Our year 1 children painted pictures of some of the activities they would like in our playground.

We had lots of ideas from trampolines to swimming pools!

The Competition

• We have been given a rare opportunity to show off our children’s work by way of a national competition. The prize is ₤10,000 to spend on playground equipment.
  Our children need to ‘own’ the entry; therefore we have planned two weeks of focused activities with this theme. This will give the children an opportunity to research, plan and evaluate what activities they would like to spend the money on to improve our playground as this will be the theme for our entry.
  Some children have already decided a climbing frame would be great fun! And others would like a trampoline!
  Over the 2 weeks the children’s curriculum will focus on ‘the playground’
  
  
  All our lessons will have this theme, some children will be
  
  Measuring the playground
  Drawing a playground plan
  Singing playtime songs and poems
  Creating a graph from a tally chart
  
  
  Others will be researching by
  
  Asking questions
  Finding out
  Working out costs
  Using ICT
  
  During this time children will record their work using photographs and video, at the end of the week this work will be collected together and sent off to the competition organizers.
  
  During this time children will be writing and asking questions to find out what other year groups would like, this will also give them the opportunity to ask grown ups their opinions, what they think would be nice in the playground and what activities they enjoyed as children.
  If you have an opportunity to support your child in this period please tell us about your ideas and experiences by leaving a comment.