Positive Playtimes: Exciting ideas for a calmer school

Orderly systems and procedures are vital to the establishment of calm playtimes. The second edition of this classic book by Jenny Mosley (previously titled All Year Round), contains valuable advice on how to establish such strategies, offers exciting ideas for a calmer school and provides a systematic model for producing an emotionally healthy school.

This is a practical, comprehensive book of fully tested ideas which shows you how to prevent unhappiness, disputes and problems at lunchtimes, and to go beyond this to create playtimes that will revolutionise the school ethos. It covers every crucial aspect, including:

• zoning the playground into designated themed areas
• training and appointing playground friends
• how to link with the outside community
• plus an emphasis on supporting lunchtime staff, boosting their morale.

It is a step-by-step guide to make sure your school really does have a Whole School Policy in place, building it one step at a time. Use this book to create order and calmness. As a practical guide, it's very hard to beat...

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Raising the self-esteem and morale of supervisors
2. Creating rules, incentives and sanctions that work
3. Playground Friends
4. Meetings and training sessions for the Playground Friends
5. Effective Circle Time meetings for lunchtime staff
6. Zoning the playground
7. Lunchtime - some practical suggestions
8. Wet playtimes
9. Traditional playground games
10. Working in partnership with parents and the wider community
11. External fund raising
12. A last word

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Training and resources