Positive Play - Licensed Trainer Course
(Duration 1-day)

Course Venue: Northampton

This is a one-day training course to enable trainers for individual schools, SSCOs in partnerships or trainers for Local Education Authorities to deliver training for lunchtime supervisors.

The course comprises the following elements:-

• The role of the lunch-time supervisor
• Providing for wet-weather lunchtimes
• Health and Safety issues
• Zoning the playground
• Playground markings
• Type and use of equipment
• Appropriate activities
• Strategies to enable play
• Organisation and delegation
• Communication
• Dealing with situations in the playground
• Competitions and fund-raising

Together with a range of inter-active games-based, problem-solving and social activities.

Participants on the National course will receive a "Positive Play" training manual and they will also be licensed to deliver Val Sabin Positive Play courses in their school, Partnership or Local Education Authority and receive a detailed outline and structure of a 2-hour course for delivery to lunchtime supervisors.

Course Objectives:-

• To reinforce the importance of the lunch-time supervisors role
• To examine ways of organising the playground and identifying appropriate equipment
• To explore practical ideas for encouraging Positive Playgrounds in Primary schools
• To provide guidelines for encouraging Positive Play
• To be able to deliver a 2 hour course to lunchtime supervisors

Click here to view current Positive Play course dates (Val Sabin website)