Extreme heat is cutting into recess for kids. Experts say that's a problem. September 7, 2023 2:57 PM ET Sequoia Carrillo & Beth Wallis https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1198269007/1198301913# This week, sweltering heat has forced districts around the country – up and down the East coast and across the Midwest – to close schools early or [...]
https://youtu.be/4xCq9lxlXCo Agencies in Erie County put in Peaceful Playground for Pfeiffer-Burleigh Elementary. Photo by R Frank Media A Peaceful Playground is a safe play environment that enhances learning, prevents bullying and allows schools to add 100 games and markings to their playground. The Peaceful Playgrounds Program identified five solutions to 5 [...]
Kern Valley Sun Article By Shannon Rapose During a winter break, parents and staff came together to paint hundreds of shapes, footprints and multiuse game markings in the play areas on the Wallace playground creating a "Peaceful Playground." According to Brian Polston, principal of Kernville and Wallace Elementary, "the mission of Peaceful Playgrounds is to [...]
Playgrounds serve to be a microcosm of the world where our kids learn important lessons. They are filled with students who are human. Perfection may not be possible but the aspiration to create a peaceful playground is paramount. We want our future generation to accept that everyone is invited to the party and we all [...]
East Street School Returns to NEW Painted Playground Markings East Street staff and students are returning to school this year and they will be welcomed with a new, colorful, fun painted playground markings. The school is implementing the Peaceful Playgrounds Program. It is based on the concept that several well-marked, colorfully designed markings will [...]
Wallace Elementary Gets New Peaceful Playgrounds Recess Program By Shannon Rapose / Kern Valley Sun During winter break, a handful of Wallace staff and volunteers went to work painting hundreds of colorful shapes, playful footprints and multipurpose game boundaries in the play areas of the Wallace Elementary School and in the Kindergarten yard as part [...]
Peaceful Playgrounds Provides and Improved Recess Experience The Byram Hills Education Foundation, Inc. (BHEF) and the Debra Leipman Yale Memorial Fund (DLYMF) recently announced the opening of the new Peaceful Playground recess program at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk. A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the occasion which was attended by the entire third, fourth and fifth-grade [...]
Peaceful Playgrounds january 23, 2018 by carrie froese, I recently read a publication in the NY Times Sunday Review called My Kid’s First Lesson in Realpolitik. Annie Pfeifer is a parent bemoaning the need for our children to stand up to bullies. There is recognition of the fact that “helicopter parents” swoop in with speed and vehemence [...]
After a school playground incident involving a first-grade student, a child's mother, Mrs. Romeno petitioned the local School Board to consider playground safety guidelines from Peaceful Playgrounds designed to keep all kids safe on the playground. The incident has turned the mother into an advocate for school playground safety at Guilderland. She presented the board [...]
Painting Peaceful Playground Games in Oklahoma Schools, July 2015 by: Blake Taylor Lawrence Elementary, Wichita, KS and Vaughn Humbolt, Rosalia, KS In January of 2015, I was asked by Lindsi Lemons the Program Director of Schools for a Healthy Lifestyle, and Jason Hasty of the Putnam School district, if I would be interested in Painting [...]
Marlin Elementary Gets a Grant for Recess Program The Herald Times by Mary Keck BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Visit Marlin Elementary School and you'll see a new grant for their recess program. You'll see kids hopping across yellow, blue and red numbers, letters and symbols on the blacktop, their shoes hitting each foot printed on [...]
by RACHEL DAWSON, Federal Way Mirror Reporter Sept. 3, 2014 Former Seahawks Steve Largent, Mack Strong, and Warren Moon joined more than 50 volunteers and representatives of United Way of King County and Dairy Management Inc. to help uplift Federal Way’s Lake Grove Elementary school playground on students’ first day back to school. As the second-oldest [...]
MARILYN FORBES I FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW Enjoying the U.S. map on the Menallen Elementary School playground are students (from left) Matthew Zsiros, 11, Echo Shaffer, 10, Colton May, 7 and Hunter Sabatula, 6. The parents and the staff of the Menallen Elementary School playground committee have been striving for two years to [...]
MacArthur School in Hoffman Estates is the third school in District 54 to implement the Peaceful Playground program, which provides colorful blacktop games that promote active, healthy play. (Kate Thayer/Tribune) By Kate Thayer TribLocal reporter Recess isn’t just about swinging and sliding for some students in District 54. Instead, they’re playing problem-solving [...]
School recess activities at Nottingham Elementary Hudson School implements new playground rules Photo by : William Wrobel The Telegraph Jumprope at recess When one player made a mistake and wanted a “do-over,” others reminded him that was against the new playground rules, and he quietly, if somewhat unhappily, returned to playing. And [...]
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