Play Scotland Research – Can you help?
11 April 2016
Do you have a child 8 – 12 years old and live in…
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When Kids Create Their Own Playground
8 April 2016
In urban waste-material adventure playgrounds, children can build, climb, graffiti, and create. Full…
Read more »Walk to School Week, Living Streets, 16 – 20 May 2016
5 April 2016
Take part in Strider’s Walk in the Wild – a five-day challenge that…
Read more »Coping with risk and danger should be part of curriculum – HSE chair
1 April 2016
Coping with risk and danger is crucial to a child’s education and should…
Read more »My World Outdoors
31 March 2016
There is significant and growing interest in how children and young people access…
Read more »Parents’ low expectations ‘condemning toddlers to a life of underachievement’
30 March 2016
Save The Children study warns half of parents missing out of ‘light bulb’…
Read more »Children spend less time outside than average pensioner
22 March 2016
They should be spending their childhood enjoying exciting adventures outdoors – climbing trees,…
Read more »Attitude shift needed to encourage outdoor play
15 March 2016
Outdoor nurseries are giving children better learning outcomes, according to new Care Inspectorate…
Read more »Children should learn mainly through play until age of eight, says Lego
15 March 2016
Parents are squeezing the role of play out of their children’s lives in…
Read more »‘Play Freely at Your Own Risk’
15 March 2016
A history of adventure playgrounds, which offer children the opportunity for no-rules recreation….
Read more »Attitude shift needed to encourage outdoor play
14 March 2016
Outdoor nurseries are giving children better learning outcomes, according to new Care Inspectorate…
Read more »Comment: ‘It’s important for children to learn to be cold, wet, and survive that’
11 March 2016
Teacher Jane Williams-Siegfredsen was at first shocked and fascinated by Denmark’s forest kindergartens….
Read more »India Knight: British children are too sad
11 March 2016
Our children are among the unhappiest in the world. But here’s how to…
Read more »City children being sold short over the right to play
1 February 2016
CHILDREN in urban areas across Scotland are being sold short because local authorities…
Read more »Forest Schools: Education as Nature Intended
1 February 2016
If you think today’s children spend too much time indoors, you’re not alone….
Read more »Time spent online ‘overtakes TV’ among youngsters
26 January 2016
Young people are spending more time online than watching television for the first…
Read more »Generation of sad and lonely children: Social media ‘triggering plague of low self-esteem’
7 January 2016
Children are plagued by loneliness and low self-esteem due to the pressures of…
Read more »Reading, writing and mud: the growth of Forest Schools
9 December 2015
Becky Dickinson visits a Forest School and examines how the Scandinavian approach to…
Read more »Risk is essential to childhood – as are scrapes, grazes, falls and panic
4 November 2015
Children need to be exposed to risky play. For ‘helicopter parents’, this might…
Read more »The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Guide for Children & Young People
29 October 2015
The UNCRC Booklet is aimed at children and young people under the age…
Read more »‘Ignorance about Vitamin D’ as rickets cases soar
26 October 2015
More than a third of mothers do not know the health benefits of…
Read more »Tick-box policy won’t raise free-range kids
22 October 2015
A new report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on ‘a fit and healthy…
Read more »After the school day in Finland, play and more play
20 October 2015
Children in the after-school program in Helsinki’s Katajanokka Comprehensive School play in the…
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