A child’s play is an integral part of the child growing up. This play can be done anywhere, as a child is able to conjure up situations where play is possible from just about anything. However for the purposes of this essay I will talk of the playground area at two different schools. How children manage play is what I will be looking at. The question of how much a role gender plays in differing age groups. How do children react to an older male and female ‘invading’ their territory and are there any marked differences in play between boys and girls? Younger and older students?
The first school I visited was Khandallah School. A primary school of approximately 480 students aged from 5 through to 11. The school is split into two different areas. One for the younger children (aged 5 to 7) and another for the older children (8 to 11). This here is forced segregation and limited my ability to judge how a child reacts to those at the opposite end of the age spectrum. An ideal situation would have been to have one single playground where all age groups played. Thus evidence of age acceptance or rejection would have been more obvious. I walked into the younger playground to observe them first. As I walked through the playground
6-12 Child has now learned that the group is an essential part of life and does things to try and
One hypothesis that I went into this exercise with was that a family’s socio-economic situation would have a bearing on how the children behaved however my observations of the two schools have shown this to be false. Clare and I were handled in two very different ways and the gender mixing across age groups was also very different at the two schools. This despite the fact that both schools are in suburbs of some affluence. Kelburn/Thorndon for Clifton Terrace and Khandallah for Khandallah School. If my hypothesis were correct, I would have found two similar situations at the schools.
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