The simple act of playing is important to a child's development. Kids need to engage in creative stimulating play that pushes their imagination and helps to develop both fine and gross motor skills. For example weaving helps kids develop fine motor skills, while painting and playing with blocks develops gross motor skills.
At Harrington students participate in a program titled playworks. Play works is a nation wide program that is most active in lower income areas. It teaches kids basic outdoor games and encourages fair and respectful play. At the beginning of the year none of the students knew how to play a game as simple as kickball. They would kick the ball and just run away not knowing they needed to run to first base. Play works was instituted at Harrington to shift the playground dynamic. Before it started there would be bullying on the playground, now near the end of it's first year in use, students no longer fight and push one another around at recess.
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