This site aims to bring together the best of online resources dealing with playground games, playground management and media coverage of playground issues in general.
If you wish to contribute playground games or other items of interest to those concerned with playgrounds, contact the webmaster (see bottom of page)
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Games Central Station |
This web site is a resource for Physical Educators, recreation specialists, parents or anyone working with children. There are now over 350 games for preschool through 12th grade. Each game includes instructions, equipment, skills, related sports and more. Start by searching for games by name, grade, skills, related sport, and location. You can find warm-ups. You can even choose a random game! Then, you can easily print the games you find |
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The Heath School |
A small school in the middle of Ireland near Portlaoise. Lots of games to try out for ages 4 to 11+. The Irish certainly know how to have fun! |
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Elanora Heights |
Situated in Northern Sydney, Australia. A fun place to visit with games to try out. Lots of photos and a quick response from the staff! |
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Ysgol Llanddulas |
A small but international award winning village school in North Wales with 2 growing collections of games. All are tried and tested by children. Only the best appear on the site with instructions, an evaluation and zany photographs. We are the coordinators of the Playground Pals Project. |
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Plains Cree Indian Games |
Just a few short years ago, there existed no readily accessible resources on the First Nations of the Great Plains. The pioneering work done by institutions like the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Center in the late 70s and 80s were important first steps. Now Nutana Collegiate Institute is pleased to be a part of the next generation of informational resources - available on on the Internet. |
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'Games Kids Play' An amazing collection of hundred's of games from the USA and around the world! |
Remember
all those games you played as kid out in the backyard? Where did the
those rules come from? Obviously
there was no "official" rule book, just knowledge passed down
from older kids to younger kids.
The purpose of this award winning site is two-fold; - One, to let you remember some of those odd games we used to play and bring a smile to your face. - Two, to try to catalog a fascinating piece of oral tradition, and make sure none of these games are lost forever. |
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Duiliu Zamfirescu School |
An international award winning single issue website developed by a school from Vrancea, Romania as a way of collecting international folk games, rhymes, tongue twisters and customs. The result is a universal website anthology with contributions from over 30 countries. |
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Sriwittayapaknam School Thailand |
A school site with lots of Playground games. Here's what the students say: "Many of the games that our students play in the school playground are recognisable the world over: skipping, football, tag and marbles. Some of these have the same rules but different names: are you familiar with the game "Piggy in the middle" where someone standing in-between two other players has to try and grab hold of the ball? In Thai it is called Ling Ching Bon - "Monkey Snatches Ball". The person who plays "it", or ben in Thai, is often chosen using a familiar game called "rock, scissors, paper". In Thai it is called Bao Ying Choob and has the same rules." |
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Using playground games in the curriculum |
A quick look at how and why studying and playing playground games fits into the school curriculum |
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Beaconsfield Primary School |
A site in Western Australia with an illustrated collection of games from Pacific Rim nations produced by the the senior Intensive Language Centre |
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European Games |
A site shared by 4 schools as part of a joint European project |
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Woodlands Junior School |
A primary school site in Kent with a good selection of playground games and skipping rhymes |
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Richardson School |
A primary school in Canberra Australia with a selection of playground games, skipping games, clapping games and string games |
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The Inclusion Project |
Advice and an online collection of games from East Sussex County Council in England |
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St Augustine's School |
A primary School in Nottingham, UK who used games as part of their work on 'Building Community' |
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Fawn's Playground Equipment |
Fawns Recreational Services Ltd are based in the UK and say of themselves: "We have for years, strived to be different. Using new materials, looking for more competitive designs that fit the ever increasing tighter budgets of schools and local authorities. Without compromising on the durability and safety. We have over the last few years developed some totally original ideas for play equipment, that we are am very flattered that some have already been recognised and have been adopted (in modified forms) by some of our competitors into their ranges. |
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Sovereign Playground Equipment |
Sovereign are leading suppliers of
play equipment to the education sector. Today Sovereign playgrounds are
a familiar sight in countless schools across the UK. Sovereign have developed a range of equipment specifically designed to meet the play requirements of today's schools ensuring safe and exciting play. They are now offering a playground marking service in the UK. |
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Painting maps in playgrounds |
A press article from 1997 on ways of improving your playground: Ed Bonne is a second-grade teacher in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, but he's better known to school principals around the United States as "The Playground Map Guy." Bonne has been painting U.S. maps on school playgrounds for ten years. He's painted hundreds of playground maps. |
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Thermoplastic Playground markings |
Highway Safety Systems are a UK based company who normally spend their time painting road markings. Now they offer thermoplastic playground markings including chess boards, alphabets and the like. They claim they last 8 times longer than conventional paint |
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Play ground Safety |
An American article on the statistics behind modern thinking on safe playground design |
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Peaceful Playgrounds |
An American commercial site dedicated to playground design. Sells games collections and templates for painting the playground |
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Include me! |
Online Australian article about including children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus in Playground Games |
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Play's the thing! |
Online article in The Guardian Newspaper about the upsurge in the teaching of Playground Games in the UK (December 2000) |
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Safety Fears over Playground Games |
Online article in Telegraph Newspaper about the banning of Playground Games in the UK (December 2000) |
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Bullying and Playgrounds |
BBC children's news article and survey on bullying on school playgrounds |
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Weetangera Primary Playground Play Program Project |
The Weetangera Primary Playground Play Program was established in July 1996. The program was developed by two teachers at the school, Christopher Duncan and Vivienne Blundell, along with the input and support of the 1996 Year 6 students. This program was developed and established for a number of the following reasons. The school had recently restructured the timetable and this restructuring resulted in the students having a one hour lunch break every day. Due to the increased time in the playground, a number of students were becoming bored and playground problems increased. Year 6 students came up with the idea to run a number of organised games for the younger students in the school at lunch-time. From this initial idea, two teachers devised the following program which enabled a successful student-led Playground Play Program (P.P.P) to be established at Weetangera Primary school. |
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Designing out the bullies |
An online magazine article on how careful planning in the design and supervision of playgrounds can be effective in curbing bullying |
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Can I get something out of the box? |
Welsh experiences of transforming playground behaviour on a shoestring at Ysgol Llanddulas
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| Published Playground Games | Playground Games and More Playground Games. 2 Photocopiable resources available to buy on line from Pearson Publishing |
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| Global Games |
A Photocopiable resource written by Colin Lavelle (Webmaster of this site) available from June 2001 to buy on line from Pearson Publishing. Lots of fun adults too! 40 games for groups and 10 pages of advice on playground management |
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