Making a Boring Playground Colourful and Diverse

  • “After taking part in a four-year long process, we have opened a new playground at our school. It will give boys and girls the same opportunities, they will be surrounded by nature and it has come from their dreams." This is now the new playground at Kurutziaga School at Durango, Bizkaia, has been described. It will be officially opened on 24th April.


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They had seen that the school's external space reflected the usual models: football, five-a-side, basketball and pilota courts took up most of the space, which led to an imbalance of relationships: it was the boys who were taking up most of the space (they were the ones who played most football), and the girls were left on the stands or the staircases… That model has been overcome and the central spaces can be used for multiple purposes "for everybody to enjoy them in equality and for them not to be typical group sports areas." They believe that in the new areas boys and girls of different ages will have better relationships.

"For external areas and classrooms not to be two isolated areas."

When they had been asked the pupils had requested more natural areas, activities connected with nature and kitchen gardens to play a greater role. This had been acted on by taking advantage of the green areas and trees in the surroundings: "Nature was hardly present. That is why we wanted a space for children and young people to experience their senses, where they can be in direct contact with the changes of the seasons and climatic factors. The aim is for external areas and classrooms not to be two isolated areas, and for them to enrich each other", they explain.

The result is a space in which free, symbolic playing is encouraged. However, the members of the Jolastokia amesten ('Dreaming of a Playground') state: "We see this as a dynamic project: it doesn't finish here. Children, young people, families and, in particular, teachers will have to make sure that this transforming process does not come to an end."

This article was translated by 11itzulpen; you can see the original in Basque here.


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