Today Anna from the ‘A Place In Childhood’ organisation came to visit along with Ana Arnett, Community Involvement & Development Officer, to work with our class. We were thinking about our local area and places of importance. We collected quite a list!
After that, we went on a walk to help us think more about the areas around our school, what we like about them, how we use them and how they might be improved. Our walk ended up at the Boddam Play Park so we had our snacks outside and had a play! This was actually useful for our discussions later!
We then worked in groups on an island task. We pretended we were separated from the rest of Shetland from Levenwick and South. We noted down what we would miss not being connected to other areas and added them to the ‘island’. When Anna collated all our ideas, we were able to think more realistically about what we would like to see in our area and this helped us create our priority list.
Tomorrow, we will all complete a Play Sufficiency Assessment where we will select areas we like to play and pinpoint others that we feel could be improved. The results will be used to support the SIC in their decision making plans for the future. We will then use our expertise to help others in the school complete this same survey.
Our final task will be to select a few willing pupils to share our thoughts and ideas at a Showcase Event at Sandwick JH School next Friday. We will meet with children from our Cluster Schools and share our priorities with local decision makers, including representatives from the Shetland Islands Council. It’s a great opportunity for us to effect change and see that our views are valued.
Grateful thanks to Anna, Ana and our parent volunteers!
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