CURRENT schools: OPAL school visit - Inkersall Spencer Academy

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 Inkersall Spencer Academy.

11am–12pm OPAL school 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 see an OPAL playtime in action – ask the children about how they manage risk and the grown-ups about the changes they have seen.

About Inkersall Spencer Academy

Inkersall Spencer Academy has recently received their OPAL gold award, recognizing their exceptional commitment to providing some of the highest quality play opportunities in the country. Whether the children are zooming down hills on bikes or scooters, building dens, digging in the massive digging pit, making mud pies, or climbing trees, every single child is engaged in purposeful amazing play!

Additional information

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