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Acorns Primary School is looking for a fun, motivated, enthusiastic, reliable and adaptable person who is passionate about children's play, wellbeing and learning, and understands the importance of this in children's lives, translating that passion, experience, knowledge and drive to lead an effective play team that is dedicated to providing a welcoming and safe space for all children.

The successful candidate will lead and be responsible for the day-to-day running of outdoor play and learning (OPAL) at lunchtime, and co-ordinate the after school wraparound club alongside our external provider Onside Coaching, ensuring provision of high quality experiences and equal opportunities.

The Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) Primary Programme is the result of over 20 years of testing and development in over 800 schools and has been used in Spain, Canada, France and New Zealand. The programme has also been adapted and used in schools in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria under the Play Friendly Schools project.

OPAL is based on the idea that, as well as learning through good teaching, your children also learn when they play. As 20% of their time in school is playtime, we want to make sure that this amount of time (equivalent to 1.4 years of primary school) is as good as possible.