New Adventure Timber Trail at Wyberton
School time has become a little bit more of a timber trail adventure down at Wyberton Primary.
A new £4,000 adventure timber trail was installed in the school grounds earlier this month and the Wyberton youngsters shouldn’t have too many complaints about the way it looks, after all they designed it themselves.
“We had a number of companies come round with their designs, they choose Playforce the UK’ premier provider of playground equipment for schools. We then presented our school council with various ideas” explains Wyberton head Helen Richardson. “The kids had to pick and choose which bits they liked”
The school council- made up of 14 children, two from each class were the overall architects of the scheme, organising a consultation with the rest of the school over which items of playground equipment to buy for the outdoor playground and how it should all be laid out.
They dealt with it in a very mature way, deciding how they wanted to get feedback from the classes and so on, the council instructed the teachers on how long to spend on it and found it all very rewarding.
The head believes getting her pupils involved in the running of the school can be highly beneficial.
Activities like this are important for the children they learn responsibility for playground equipment and property and they learn how to work and play together she said.
They get the opportunity to plan and see through a product that’s purely of their making. Instead of having something imposed upon them by teachers.
The new outdoor playground area, which was paid for with funds raised from the friends of the school, is only the first part of ambitious plans that will see a major redevelopment of the school grounds.
