Play and Lunch Times

Thrive

Here at Banham we treat the holistic needs of our children with the upmost importance. We know that for our young people to thrive they need a balanced lifestyle both now and in their future.

Mental Health Foundation

The Mental Health Foundation prompt:

Things that can help keep children and young people mentally well include:

  • being in good physical health, eating a balanced diet and getting regular exercise
  • having time and freedom to play, indoors and outdoors
  • being part of a family that gets along well most of the time
  • going to a school that looks after the wellbeing of all its pupils
  • taking part in local activities

Impact

We know that breaktimes where children are engaged, focused, active and enjoying themselves help:

  • increase classroom engagement and make children more attentive, productive and ‘learning ready’.
  • help reduce disruptive behaviour in the learning environment.
  • help reduce sedentary behaviours which can lead to life long habits.
  • allow children to learn which physical activities they enjoy.
  • allow children to practice and build upon skills learnt in PE lessons and sporting activities they take part in.
  • improve children’s learning and overall academic achievement.

Provide

  • movement breaks.
  • provide cognitive rest and recuperation from the learning in the classroom.
  • allow for thinking time.
  • allow for regulation and reset.
  • young people with different ways to manage any stress and help develop coping strategies.

Develop

  • help children learn negotiation, cooperation, sharing, problem-solving and self-control.
  • practice social skills with peers.
  • develop role- play and creative play.
  • allow for children to experience being flexible in their thought process.
  • to help develop independent skills both in thought and action.

Allow

  • young people to extend their ideas, rest, play, think, imagine, exercise and be resourceful.
  • adults and young people to mix and play in an informal environment and strengthen relationships

I like all the different things I can do.

We can make lots of things in our mud kitchen.

I can now do the monkey bars all on my own!

Sometimes we work on football skills and sometimes we have a big match!

We practice skills and improve each day.

Our future netball team!

Coming together across year groups.