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Writing a Play Policy
Writing a Play Policy
This is a tool is for individual settings to use to develop their own play policy. Play Midlothian and Play Scotland collaborated on this document, drawing on their collective experience...
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Playful Schools: Toolkit for delivering Loose Parts Play in Covid-19
Playful Schools: Toolkit for delivering Loose Parts Play in Covid-19
The Playful Schools Project was a collaboration between Play Scotland and ScrapAntics CIC, funded by the Scottish Government’s Wellbeing Fund. It was a pilot project to explore the potential for...
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Playful Schools: The power of Loose Parts Play Executive Summary
Playful Schools: The power of Loose Parts Play Executive Summary
Playful Schools, a partnership project delivered with Scrap Antics has demonstrated that outdoor, free play is crucial to children’s mental health and wellbeing and provision of free play opportunities within...
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Playful Schools: The power of Loose Parts Play
Playful Schools: The power of Loose Parts Play
Playful Schools, a partnership project delivered with Scrap Antics has demonstrated that outdoor, free play is crucial to children’s mental health and wellbeing and provision of free play opportunities within...
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Setting Richness and Autonomy Assessment
Setting Richness and Autonomy Assessment
These assessment tools were developed for a PHD thesis which investigated the impacts of indoor and outdoor settings on cognition in Scottish primary schoolchildren.
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First Steps to Playful Pedagogy
First Steps to Playful Pedagogy
Playful Pedagogy entails an endless and satisfying journey of discovery, which for many practitioners is about true teaching. A Learning Adventure is a useful metaphor for playful pedagogical teaching plans...
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Play Well Pack
Play Well Pack
Play Scotland and Save the Children are delighted to launch the Play Well pack, which is packed full of suggestions, ideas and tips to support your child’s play and learning...
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Have your say on play
Have your say on play
The Have your say on play resource is a simple method to gather the views of children to feed in to development of play policy. These resources were inspired by...
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