Research by the Lincolnshire-based charity Children's Links has found that many young children do not know how to play games like hopscotch, skipping, quoits and jacks.
The charity is now training lunchtime supervisors to learn more than 80 traditional games and teach them to children during playtime. Children's Links has produced a pack of illustrated games resource cards to help deliver the initiative.
Children's Links originally piloted the Traditional Playground Games project in three primary schools in Lincolnshire. Children who took part in the pilot test were found to become good members of the school community.
Bullying was reduced and fewer accidents occurred in the playground.
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