Opal Playtimes

We are an OPAL Platinum School.

Our Opal Vision

Opal's vision is that every child in every school has an amazing hour of high quality play every day – with no exceptions.

We completely endorse this vision - our aim is to ensure that all of our children experience at least an hour of high quality play every day.

Repton Manor Primary School - Our Opal Journey

We are embarking on a project to improve our playtimes for all children at Repton Manor Primary School.  We have signed up to the Opal (Outdoor Play and Learning) programme in order to support us with this.  We are now an OPAL Platinum School - but this doesn't mean that our play development stops - we will work hard to keep making our children's playtimes as good as they can be.

Did you know that playtime is about 20% of every child’s day at school? That’s 1.4 years of every child’s life while they are at primary school.

Playing outdoors in rich play environments is one of the best ways for children to develop social skills, build resilience, make more friends, be more creative and care more about the planet. Right now, this is more important than ever.

For these reasons, improving our children's playtime and making them the highest quality that they can be is crucial to us.

We are very excited to participate in the Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) primary programme, which is endorsed and supported by Sport England and runs in hundreds of schools across the UK and worldwide.

You can watch a video of how the OPAL programme has helped transform school playtimes here and read more on the OPAL website.

What do our children think of Opal playtimes?