A look around Abbey Primary School, Bloxwich.

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00:00So we are quite a small primary school, we're one form entry so we only have one class in each

00:10year group, right on the edge of Warsaw into Staffordshire and I've been head teacher for

00:16just over 10 years now and was here as deputy head before that and as you'd expect I love

00:22our school, I think that we pride ourselves on knowing the children that come to the school,

00:28knowing their strengths, their love of things and their needs also and I would agree that

00:34all my staff do that as well, we see our children thrive as they come through into our nursery

00:40and then if they stay with us all the way through to year 6 and the curriculum for us is really

00:47important but also that personal development that we pride ourselves on for our children as well.

00:51So we introduced our Opal programme just under two years ago and that was really in response

00:58to trying to help support our children at lunch times particularly, trying to get them to think

01:05about how they play with each other, how they play generally and really build those interactions

01:11for them and now we've got that outdoor playing learning set up, it's really been impactful

01:16for our children, we make use of our wonderful space that we've got around the school which

01:22we didn't before, we used to have football and then perhaps a few activities but you know

01:28it was all centred around the playground and now we've got a whole range of different activities

01:32that keep the children engaged, it builds their self-confidence, it builds conversations,

01:39we've got older children working with younger children which again was quite limited before

01:43and it's really strengthened our provision that we've got for our children at lunch times.