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Lissan Primary School, Cookstown
Catholic Schools Week from 18th - 24th January 2026
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✨The Magic of Block Play✨

30th Apr 2025

Block play is an important part of our play based learning in the foundation stage. Our open shelves allow children to access resources independently, to move and transport. To connect, create, build and construct. Their creativity thrives as they explore shapes and colours.

The children love experimenting, stacking, and building - developing fine motor skills, early math concepts and problem-solving along the way! It also enables our children to develop concepts of spatial awareness and configuration.

“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.” Friedrich Froebel