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When children returned to Greatfield Park Primary School in Cheltenham after this year's Easter holidays, they found a 15 square-metre, bright blue steel shed in their playground. The words "Scrapstore PlayPod" were painted on the front. "What's that?" they asked. Head teacher Nikki Hill said: "I don't know, what do you think?" Thus began the school's new creative style of play and learning.
Two weeks later, the PlayPod officially opened. Created by Bristol-based charity Children's Scrapstore, the shed contained clean, safe and non-hazardous business waste materials for pupils to play with, such as car tyres, crates, cardboard tubes, electronic equipment or wood cut-offs.
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