PYC Big Grow Day @ Somerstown APG

'An adventure playground at its heart belongs to the children who use it.' Somerstown Adventure Playground alongside five other adventure playgrounds across the city of Portsmouth provides a space dedicated to children's freely chosen play, where skilled playworkers are on hand to ensure, enable and facilitate a space that is developed organically for the children who use the setting. Somerstown Adventure Playground is a stimulating space with wooden structures, loose parts from tyres, wooden pallets to oil drums, swings & sand to allow for spontaneous free expression of children’s innate drive to play. An adventure playground provides an environment where children can experiment, push their boundaries, try and fail, and try again. Children and young people need to learn to assess and manage risks, not be insulated from them entirely. In doing so, they develop self-esteem, confidence, and resilience: ‘I can do this’. Playworkers act as advocates for children & young people on the playground, within the community & beyond.