A step-by-step guide to setting up a playground buddies scheme in your primary school.
The Buddies Toolkit includes:
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An evaluation of the impact of playground buddies in two Manchester primary schools found that 78% of children felt safer in the playground with buddies on duty.
A playground buddy scheme is just one important piece of the jigsaw of creating a peaceful and inclusive school - others are a school council; circle time; emotional literacy programmes; peer mentoring; peer mediation. This manual has grown out of work with Manchester primary schools over the last seven years.
“You could see it was starting to make a difference because the children realised they were role models ... there are less incidents in the playground and the buddies say that there is less fighting.”
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