Playground Graphics
Children's personal, social and health education skills can be aided by the inclusion of stimulating games and graphics painted on the playground surface. Whether you require simple hopscotch, numerical / alphabet / geometric based games, or even a large snakes & ladders board, we offer a variety of designs that can be tailored to your requirements.

Sports Markings for Playgrounds
Play Areas for primary schools are usually much smaller than those of secondary schools and are normally based on multi-purpose facilities. Much of both curricular and extra-curricular activity is informal. Formal games are for the most part, ‘mini’ versions of the sports played at secondary schools.

Planning Playground Schemes
Children may use certain areas of the playground for specific games. It is important to identify these in advance of planning and marking the playground. It is advisable to avoid marking areas which are already well used, or to incorporate markings which will enhance the games already being played in that area.

This information can be obtained by:
• asking groups of children what games they play and where.
• observing play during break times and lunch times.

Pupils will have a wealth of ideas for games and markings for the playground. It can be very useful to tap into these ideas, although it should be explained to the children that it probably won’t be possible to include all of their ideas on the finished plan. Ideas could be obtained in the following ways:

Pupils could be asked to draw or list their ideas as a classroom exercise; or to share their ideas in class discussion.

A competition could be held in which pupils submit designs with a commitment to reproducing one suitable design on the playground.

Pupils could be provided with chalk and invited to draw their suggestions in the appropriate place on the playground.