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Colin
Lavelle Project
Coordinator |
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the main
Montage
site
for a growing
list of other exciting projects |
| This
project's primary aim is to develop positive playground environments, through
email and class collaboration, students can teach others their favourite
games and teachers can share successful strategies for peer mediation and
various playground programs.
There are two
parts to the project, the first aims to provide students with the opportunity
to exchange information, with school's locally and globally, about playground
games, learn some new ones or variations on their favourites and even investigate
the origins of games. Secondly we aim, to support teachers with new and
innovative playground programs by providing a forum for teachers to share
strategies, exchange ideas, develop new programs and collaborate to solve
common problems.
Schools all around
the world experience similar difficulties in their playgrounds. Children
having a limited repertoire of games to play, unsafe playing habits, bullying,
children becoming bored in the playground (often leading to inappropriate
behaviour) and wet lunch hours can create chaos and difficulties in the
playground.
Share your
favourite playground games, teach others new games and learn some new ones.
Browse through the collection of games we have, better still, add to it! |
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The
Heath School
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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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the Site
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Elanora
Heights
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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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the Site
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YsgolLlanddulas
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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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the Site
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Plains
Cree Indian Games
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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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the Site
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'Games
Kids Play'
An amazing
collection of hundred's of games from the USA and around the world!
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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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the Site
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Duiliu
Zamfirescu School
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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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the Site
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Sriwittayapaknam
School, Thailand
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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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the Site |
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Kansas
Historical Society
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A small
collection of games played in the rural schools of Kansas at the turn of
the twentieth century
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the Site
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Using
playground games in the curriculum
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A quick
look at how and why studying and playing playground games fits into the
school curriculum
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the Site
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Beaconsfield
Primary School
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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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the Site
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St.
Joseph's School
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A growing
site in the South West of Ireland with work on playground games by children
aged 10 in 4th class.
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OFF LINE
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the Site
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