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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, we're still fully invested in our OPAL journey and are working closely with the OPAL team to continue to develop and enhance our playtimes. You can read more about the power of play here.​​

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As a team of staff, some of our best and most fond childhood memories are from playing outdoors, climbing trees, making 'potions' and riding our bikes through muddy puddles. OPAL gives us the opportunities to share these memories with the children at our school.

 

Click here to read our play charter - our promise to each other as we play

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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 Cabin - for colouring and lego activities  

• a MUGA for ball games 

• a 'wheels' zone

• a performance area and stage 

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In the pipeline are the additional areas of...

• a den making woodland!

• 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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