Thanks to the generosity of Toy Street customers, we have been able to donate educational toys and games worth hundreds of pounds to local primary schools.

In the last few years, lots of people have experienced the challenges of home-schooling first-hand. Covid restrictions meant fewer and fewer ways to keep children occupied. When schools closed and many families had to return to home-schooling, we decided to offer our support.

Toy Street Donations

We set out about contacting local primary schools and donating educational toys and games to help make home-learning more engaging. We invited our customers to donate towards this initiative when checking out on our website. Many customers made generous donations, allowing us to offer educational games to so many children across our home city, Norwich.

We have been able to reach out to eight local primary schools, offering them each a large bundle of educational toys and games. These bundles included a range of games to encourage essential reading, writing, maths, and science learning. Many of the games also help children to learn real-life skills such as problem-solving and using money.

Clover Hill VA Infant and Nursery School and St Michael’s VA Junior School

The bundles have all been gratefully accepted. Mrs Helen McCarney, executive headteacher of Clover Hill VA Infant and Nursery School and St Michael’s VA Junior School in Norwich, said:

“As soon as we gave the games to the children who are presently in school during this lockdown period, they couldn’t wait to open the boxes and start playing. They have such fun playing the games that they don’t realise that they are learning too! I am pleased to see such a wide variety of activities, topics, and means of presentation. The games and toys help the children to explore the topics and concepts in a really fun way. It has been great for the children’s social skills too. They miss working together and playing so these games have come out regularly and are always happily played! Thank you so much to Toy Street!”

 

A Big Thank You to our Customers!

None of this would have been possible without our amazing customers. We would like to say a huge thank you to anyone who donated to the campaign. Thanks to you, we were able to send out these educational games to primary school children across Norwich. We are so grateful to have such lovely customers who allow us to help with the education of children in any way that we can.

We look forward to being able to donate more and more toys to different charities with the help of our brilliant customers.

Educational Toys and Games

Here at Toy Street, we have a huge selection of educational toys and games for children of all ages. Click here to browse the full range.