Mark Lupton has written an interesting article for the Guardian
on how sports have helped improve the SATs results in St Leonard’s
primary school, Lancashire.  It’s an interesting article, and certainly
one that you may want to read if you’re thinking about how your
playground could be used to it’s full potential.  The headteacher
finishes that article saying:

"The impact this has had here is remarkable – it’s a completely
different place now, it’s colourful and bright, it’s a vibrant and
dynamic place to learn. It has improved behaviour, our results are
better, the children are more confident and they have higher
aspirations, and we have far fewer cases of absenteeism in both staff
and pupils. Bullying is not an issue here.
 

The children are still coming in to the school at the same low baseline,
well below national expectations. The difference is they are leaving well above
those same national expectations."