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Our Streets too!

National Play Day

playtrain takes play back to the streets for this years annual playday. playtrain will be taking to the streets of Moseley to explore what street play means today and what it looked like ‘back in the day’.

Playday 2007 – Our Streets too! is all about children and young people reclaiming their local streets and outside areas for play. Children today play out far less than their parents and generations before them. Children repeatedly say they want to play outside more than they do, and more and more research is suggesting that it would be good for them too. The places where children most want to be able to play are in the streets and in outside spaces near their homes, but it is here that the barriers are often the greatest.

National Playday is the annual celebration of children’s right to play and is being held on August 1st 2007 and is a national campaign – now in its 20th and biggest year yet – where thousands of children and young people get out and play at locally organised events.

In response to this, playtrain will be holding ‘Back to Play’, a fun day of games and much more from 11.30am – 2.30pm at Moseley Park and Pool. Children and young people from local areas will be invited to be involved in activities that will include old games that perhaps their parents or grandparents may have played, new games, creating visual arts, storytelling and a sharing session to explore play back in the day and how children and young people play today.

For information please contact playtrain Training and Admin Coordinator, Katy Garrett

National Play Day