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CASE STUDY: ‘WE RAISED £15,000 TOWARDS OUR EARLY YEARS PLAY AREA’
‘Our Early Years play area was a sea of grey tarmac, with little opportunity for imaginative play, which I felt was affecting pupil’s communication and language skills. Because our school is not in a wealthy area, a lot of funds go on supporting all children in the community, meaning a different source had to be found for this project. I gathered the staff together to
consider what was needed. Our maximum budget was £50,000 and, with this in mind, our supplier (), created a bespoke design for us. When I looked into grants I found
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that a frequent requirement is that community. We overcame this by offering the space to charities over the summer holidays. We began applying for grants and we were thrilled to receive £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund and £5,000 from
to contribute £6,000, and we used
as the project was to promote activity from the school’s building capital.
the 2017 Easter holidays, meaning the children had a surprise to come back to. We’re so happy with the design – there’s a water complex where the children can make dams, a shale area hiding a dinosaur skeleton set in concrete, and a Even though the play area was only
a huge improvement in the children’s imagination and creativity. For example, we recently overheard pupils role-playing in the mud kitchen, independently using language that we’d been trying to encourage them of development is up 10% since the play area opened. If that’s the impact after nine months, I’m so excited to see what happens next.’
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