Next steps
Your award status lasts for two years. After two years, you must reaccredit to continue displaying and promoting your OPAL status. Our experience supporting over 1500 schools over the past twenty years shows that schools need help to sustain and improve the quality they have attained.
You will need to do two things to sustain the quality of play in your school.
1. Maintain your OPAL College membership. This will give you access to essential RAPID risk training, Playwork Essentials, live Tea with OPAL, OPAL key-role induction courses and live support from the OPAL community of schools and our OPAL College host. This costs £250 per year for unlimited use and training.
2. Set your reaccreditation date with your mentor and discuss what kind of Next Steps package you would like to provide the level of ongoing support you need from your mentor. Some Next Steps packages include OPAL College membership in the price. Your mentor will explain the options.
If your school has had an OPAL award in the past but it has been more than two years since you last contacted us, please click on the box below, and your local mentor will contact you.
OPAL Honours
Schools which maintain Platinum status for three consecutive awards will join our OPAL Honours group. OPAL will promote these schools as national exemplars of outstanding practice.
