St Mary's Catholic Primary School Parent's survey about playtime at School (Baseline)

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are looking at our playtimes and thinking about how we can improve them by introducing the OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) Primary Programme. We really want to know what you think of playtimes now, please help us out by completing this short survey.


Thank you in advance.
1.How important do you think playtime at school is for our children?
2.Currently, how much does your child or children enjoy their school playtimes? (Feel free to ask them!)
3.why?
4.Do you think playtime at our school is
5.Thinking about your own childhood, what did you like playing at school or at home?
6.How did you benefit from that play time? (tick all that apply)
7.Please tell us any other ways that you benefitted from playtime
8.Do you feel your own child or children have the same play opportunities to play outdoors as you did?
9.How does outdoor play for children now differ to what you did? (Outside of school)
10.We want to improve the play opportunities at our school. What types of things would you like to see? (tick all that apply)
11.Anything else you would like in the playground?
12.Thinking about your family, how frequently do your children play outdoors outside your home, in the street, a green space (park, marshes, beach, playground) or similar?
13.Where do they mostly play outdoors?
14.Thinking about your family, what mostly stops outdoor play?
15.Does anything else stop your children playing outdoors? (please specify)
16.Do you own a raincoat?
17.How do you feel about muddy clothes and minor accidents from playing?
18.Any more comments?
19.We are looking for parents to help over the next year, for instance collecting stuff to play with, fundraising or helping to make things to play with. Would you be willing to help? If so how? [Note this is not a commitment, and you won't be contacted about these ideas. We will contact people separately asking for commitments based on the collective answers to this question]
Thank you very much for completing this questionnaire, your answers will really help us to help all our children have great playtimes.
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