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Children at Cambrai work hard - and because of this, we are committed to offering the opportunity to play hard! Over time, we have worked to create high quality, varied and exciting playtimes! In 2023 we were awarded an OPAL gold award for play, although our OPAL journey has come to an end we're still as passionate as ever about play time experiences! 

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From a first glance at our school, you can see that we value play... Not only do our children have big smiles, but our lovely site is enhanced with a wonderful selection of play areas and opportunities in order to allow our children to develop their play behaviours, follow their interests and live our school virtues outside of the classroom. 

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The key areas of our school site which have been developed over time are: 

• a class sized sand pit 

• a class sized gravel pit 

• a large mud kitchen and small digging area 

• a fire pit area for large group chats!

• a large digging area

• quieter seating areas around the school site

• a huge fixed play high challenge area 

• 'The Village' - wooden shelter area 

• a loose parts zone... to flare budding designers' imaginations 

• quiet activity areas - for colouring and lego activities  

• a MUGA for ball games 

• a 'wheels' zone

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In the pipeline are the additional areas of...

• a dressing up, music and performance zone

• a tree hanging zone!

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Grown ups - we are always looking for additional resources for our  playtimes! Please send in to school any old pans, pots, gardening tools (no garden forks), dressing up items, tyres, planks, crates, tarpaulins.... if a child could play with it - we'll take it!

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