International Day of Play 2024 🎈

🎈Today, 11th June 2024, is the first-ever International Day of Play, and marks a significant milestone in efforts to preserve, promote, and prioritise playing so that all people, especially children, can reap the rewards and thrive to their full potential.

Why is Play Important?

🎈Children learn best through play. Play creates powerful learning opportunities across all areas of development – intellectual, social, emotional and physical.

🎈Through play, children learn to forge connections with others, build a wide range of leadership skills, develop resilience, navigate relationships and social challenges as well as conquer their fears. When children play, they feel safe. Children play to make sense of the world around them.

🎈More generally, play provides a platform for children to express and develop imagination and creativity, which are key skills critical for the technology-driven and innovative world we live in.

🎈To mark this great day today, P4 had great fun playing some new games during PE including Beanbag Challenge, Shark Attack and 4 great Balloon Games!! We had great fun and really enjoyed this day!

        🎈”Play Makes a Better World!”🎈