What is Edutainment?
Promoting children’s health, happiness and development through play.
Our centres are designed to engage your child’s mind and body while exploring new ideas and environments. Whether they are climbing and exploring in our playframe, stepping into imaginative worlds along 360 Street or problem-solving and developing fine motor skills in our Build It, Break It room. Perhaps they’re even getting creative with Messy Play, discovering mathematics and science through Water Play, or adventuring in our Outdoor Play area – every experience is designed with purpose. Edutainment blends education with play, helping children develop essential skills like creativity, confidence, coordination, social interaction and introducing them to new concepts – all while having fun. It encourages curiosity, discovery and supports their childhood development.
The 360 Play Edutainment Pack
Our Educational Pack supports learning before, during and after your visit. Our Edutainment Pack includes curriculum-led activities on a wide range of educational topics including fractions, food miles, positive affirmations, physical education and STEM activities.
Find out how we support your groups learning from the classroom, into 360 Play and back to the classroom again.
Pre-Visit Classroom Activities
Pre-visit activities build excitement and introduce key themes such as teamwork, imaginative play and curiosity. These lesson plans, class discussions and activities help children understand what to expect and prepare them for purposeful learning at 360Play.
On-Site Teacher Tips
Teacher Tip Cards and Parent Prompts support learning during your visit, helping adults extend play through language, creativity and engagement across different zones while balancing guided and independent play. Our Teacher Tip Prompts help to make connections between our attractions, edutainment and the national curriculum.
Post-Visit Classroom Follow-Up
Post-visit activities help children reflect on their experience through creative and cross-curricular classroom activities, reinforcing learning while keeping play at the heart of the experience.
Curriculum-led Learning
360 Play is designed for active learning and supports EYFS and Primary curriculum outcomes. Each visit includes a full Educational Pack to use before, during and after your trip, all within a safe, fully supervised environment. Our experiences encourage confidence, teamwork and wellbeing, while delivering a fun and memorable day for every child.
EYFS
Our EYFS activities include direct links to the EYFS curriculum using colour coded links to the following learning areas:
Understanding the World
Communication and Language Development
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Mathematics
Expressive Arts and Design
Literacy Development
Key Stage 1
Our KS1 activities include direct links to the national curriculum using learning links to the following areas:
PSHE
Literacy
PE
Mathematics
Science
Design & Technology
Geography
Girlguiding and Scouting Programmes
Ask us about our learning links to Girlguiding and Scouting Badge programmes.
FAQs
How to book educational visits
For all enquiries and bookings, please reach out to Kailey at bookings@dpleisure.co.uk.
Include your desired visit date and time as well as the approximate numbers of children and adults attending.
Do I need to pay for Adults?
Each Group Booking includes 1 adult free per child. Additional adults are charged at £3.95 each.
Can we bring our own food?
We can provide hot food at £4.85 per child, a cold food bag at £5.50 or you can arrange to bring packed lunches which must be eaten in a designated area.