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.