Are you currently on your OPAL journey?

Come and join the family of OPAL schools at this regional network meeting, whether you are just starting out or are an established OPAL school, this morning session will bring inspiration, ideas and the chance to network with like minded local schools.

Agenda

Please arrive in good time to start at 8.30am as parents will be dropping children off from 8.30am onwards

8.30am prompt start and welcome from Ingrid Wilkinson (Senior OPAL Mentor)

UK OPAL update and growth across the NE

The case for play in schools, why playtime should be everyones business

Quality Assurance - What being an OPAL school means

Children's Mental health crisis

9.15am Networking Opportunity (Carousel - choose your group)

9am Headteacher Presentation

10.15am Playtime observation

11am Headteacher Presentation followed by Q and A

11.25 Evaluation and close

About GalleyHill Primary School

Galley Hill Primary school started their OPAL journey in March 2021. Despite covid, through their dedicated and committed efforts to improve playtimes they successfully achieved an OPAL Platinum Award in December 2022.

Their play offer is outstanding, ensuring every child has a fantastic playtime every single day. Hosting the largest school sand pit in the UK (over 130 tonne) complete with speedboat, a treehouse, large loose-parts shed, den building , bikes, tree climbing amongst much much more! The strong play team is very committed to continually improving their play offer, led by a fantastic OPAL Working group - and helped by their very supportive parents and local community.

Come see for yourself.....this event is not to be missed!

Additional information

The school is located in a housing estate with no car available parking. However there is a Sainsburys local within a 2 min walk as well as a local pub who has kindly given permission to use its car park for this event.

We are expecting this to be a popular event with a limit on numbers. Please let us know if you can no longer come so we can release your place to another school.

Regional Meeting OPAL NE Galley Hill Primary School, Guisborough

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