{"id":2537,"date":"2020-07-16T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-york-new-jersey\/2020\/07\/16\/safe-return-to-play-recess-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:41:42","slug":"safe-return-to-play-recess-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/new-york-new-jersey\/2020\/07\/16\/safe-return-to-play-recess-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Return to Play &#038; Recess Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Playworks is helping schools continue to reimagine recess.<\/h3>\n<p>For the past 24 years, Playworks has partnered with elementary schools to help kids stay active and build valuable skills through play. As schools prepare re-opening plans, we want to help provide resources for implementing both in-school and virtual play or recess experiences. We developed <strong>Recess Guidelines<\/strong> to include options for what recess could look like based on CDC and state guidelines as of July 2020. We know states, districts, and individual schools are developing many plans for reopening, and no matter what variation of online or in-person experiences they offer next school year, Playworks is here to help.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Recess-Guidelines-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View the Recess Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hr--left\" \/>\n<h3>COVID-19 is changing the way we move, interact, and play on or off the playground.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As we move toward a new school year that will be impacted by COVID-19, we need to approach play differently. This game guide will help with transitioning to in-person play and is appropriate for adaptations of the school experience for kids. It uses Playworks best practices and games<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and The Aspen Institute\u2019s Return to Play Guidelines to break down the return to play into three phases by using a stoplight system to define risk categories<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The recommendations below will help you understand how games can safely be integrated as kids, teachers, and school staff go back to school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Risk categories are assigned relative to other ways of participating in that game or activity, based on the public health and scientific understandings of COVID-19 and how it can be transmitted as of July 2020. Activities are segmented into three types of risk posed both to participants and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Safe-Return-to-Play-Guide-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the Safe Return to Play Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Playworks or any of our programs please contact <a href=\"mailto:info@playworks.org\">info@playworks.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playworks is helping schools continue to reimagine recess. For the past 24 years, Playworks has partnered with elementary schools to help kids stay active and build valuable skills through play. 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