Coed Glas Primary School has teamed up with the Trees for Cities Charity to design and install a wonderful new garden area on the side of the Key Stage 2 playground. Please click on the following Youtube clip to find out more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc80FUbQndM
Increasingly exposed to unhealthy food choices and with limited opportunities to grow and eat good food, one in three children leaving primary school are overweight or obese.
Edible Playgrounds offer a lively, engaging, multi-sensory way to teach children about growing and eating healthy food. Aside from the physical health benefits that eating well brings, learning in an outdoor environment combats Nature Deficit Disorder and has been shown to increase mental health by boosting mood, confidence and self-esteem. Furthermore, allowing the children to connect with nature develops attentiveness and self-reliance in the pupils, leading to more sustainable behaviours in the long term.