How does playground / break time mixing work at your school

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Interested to know that if you currently have children at primary school what the playground / break time age / year group mixing is like?

Do you / would you be happy with 6 / 7 year olds mixing with 10 / 11 / 12 year olds largely unsupervised.

So I’ve worked in 2 primary schools. Both schools had KS1 reception to year 2 (4 - 7 years old) in one playground. And KS2 years 3-6 so 7-11 years in the other.

It worked well and I would have no issues with this

I have worked in 2 primary schools. One school had separate playgrounds for KS1 and KS2; the current school I’m working in, the whole school are together.

Both work equally well.

In the five schools mine attended...

1. Mixed from ages 4-11 on one playground
2. Mixed from 4-11, rota for some bits of equipment
3. Junior school, mixed 7-11
4. Infants on one playground (4-7), juniors on other (7-11)
5. Mixed from 4-11 with a rota for some things.

In reality they peeled off with friends into different areas. Although the Reception class teacher once informed me my 4yo and her friend had told off some Yr5 boys for pushing and not waiting their turn on the climbing frame (pushing each other, mot the small kids). They apparently took more notice of the "scary little girls" than of teachers!

My son is in a 4-form intake school on 2 separate sites so the year groups tend to have to have break and lunchtime separately. It does mean some year groups have lunch at about 11:30 which means they’re ravenous by home time.

At my DD's school they have KS1 and KS2 on separate playgrounds at break time but they mix at lunchtime.

It seems to work well and quite a few of the little ones end up friends with the older ones. It's good for them to mix outside of their age groups.

DS's school use the playground and the adjoining sports field at breaktimes. They all go out together and hang out wherever they like. (I think there might be one or two teachers on the playground...don't think there's anyone on the sports field.)
They are on the same campus as our local comprehensive and some of their kids hang out on the primary playground as well.
No issues so far...

Same here.

When mine where in primary reception had their own playground, year 1 and 2 had another playground and year 3-6 had a another playground and the field.

DS' mix, but have different lunch breaks so the juniors are coming out from eating when the infants are getting ready to go back to class, there might be a 5 minute overlap, but it wouldn't bother me anyway 6 year old DS is taller than 10 year old DN. I think you'd also find the inner ones go off and do what they want and have little interest in playing with 5/6 year olds

My kids' school started staggering break times during covid. Everyone preferred it that way (more space in the playground) so they've kept it like that. I think it's split so P1-3 are together and P4-7. The youngest P4s are 7 and the oldest P7s are 12. No issues with the mix of ages. They are supervised, though probably not very closely.

At my sons school Nursery have their own playground, Reception have their own playground, Year 1-Year 2 have their own playground and then Year 3-Year 6 have their own playground.

It works well.

Lol my school was 7-18 year olds. We all were in the playground at the same time

breaks are staggered as they can’t feed them all at once etc. not sure if there’s much cross over.

Four separate playgrounds- preschool, reception, Y1-Y2 & then juniors. It’s a two form entry school so a lot of kids.