School Children create a Miles Platting Board Game

Park View Community School children worked with a team from Adactus Housing Association to produce their own giant version of the board game, which is now on show at Miles Platting Library. The children were asked to name, and then draw, things that they liked and disliked about the area they live in. Their pictures were then turned into a giant board game with the good pictures on squares with ladders and the bad pictures being slippery snakes.

Once completed, the children were able to play the board game themselves and it is hoped that other children will be able to enjoy playing the game at Miles Platting Library. Among the pictures children drew of things they liked were the school, their friends, open space and parks. Some of the things they didn’t like, and would like to change, included litter, bullies and graffiti.

Organised by Adactus Housing Association the creation of the game aimed to help children think about what makes a nice neighbourhood.

Natalie Tordoff, Head of Housing and Regeneration - Miles Platting at Adactus Housing Association said: “The idea behind the game was to get the children thinking about the things that make Miles Platting a nice place to live and the things that they do not want it to be spoiled by, such as anti-social behaviour and litter.

“The children did fantastically well at creating the game, and had a lot of fun in the process too. The snakes and ladders game promotes positive messages about how we can look after the place we live and the great thing about it is that the children’s work is still there for everyone to play and enjoy.”

Adactus will be organising more fun workshops like this to help promote community issues and tackle anti-social behaviour, and will be working with local schools in the New Year.

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