At Hoylake Holy Trinity we are committed to ensuring quality play opportunities are available to all our children. As a result of this, since 2024, we have been an OPAL School. The OPAL programme provides us with a mentor who works closely with the school in order to support us in enhancing and developing our play opportunities. OPAL is all about using natural and man made resources to allow children to be inspired and creative at playtime.
OPAL has many benefits, including:
Being critical to children's health and wellbeing, and essential for their physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual development.
Allowing children to explore the physical and social environment, different concepts and different ideas.
Enhancing children's self-esteem and their understanding of others through freely chosen social interactions.
Supporting communication and negotiation skills, enabling children to develop a balance between their right to act freely and their responsibilities to others.
Encouraging self- confidence and the ability to make choices, problem solve and be creative.
Allowing children to push the boundaries of what they can achieve.