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Author: Fiona Kirkland

Celebrating a big year for the Play Pedagogy Award

14 July 2026

By Fiona Kirkland, Play Pedagogy Lead It has been a really exciting year…

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Reflecting on ‘What Can We Do When School’s Not Working?’ and What It Means for Play, Belonging and Practice in Scotland

22 April 2025

Written by Fiona Kirkland, Project Officer, Play Pedagogy Award. Reflections from a powerful…

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Eyemouth Primary – Where Play Lives at the Heart of the Community 

10 April 2025

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A Viking Visit, with a Playful Twist! Up Helly Aa in Baltasound Junior High School

3 March 2025

Written by Ashley Spence, Baltasound Junior High School At Baltasound Junior High School,…

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Unveiling the Play Pedagogy Award Pilot: Embracing Play Across Scotland

27 May 2024

Exciting news ahead for Play Pedagogy in Scotland! We’re thrilled to announce the…

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Championing Children’s Rights: Insights from an interesting UNCRC Webinar with Robyn Monro-Miller (IPA) and Philip Jaffé

25 March 2024

I recently had the pleasure of attending an inspiring webinar hosted by Robyn…

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Are we ever too old to play?

27 February 2024

I recently had the pleasure of giving a talk to students at my…

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Embracing the Reggio Emilia Approach: Insights from Professor. Carla Rinaldi and Professor. Ger Graus OBE, By Fiona Kirkland

27 November 2023

              I recently had the privilege of…

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Scotland’s Play Charter

Scotland’s Play Charter describes our collective commitment to play for all children and young people. Supporters of the Charter know that children have the right to play and value play as an essential part of children’s health and wellbeing as individuals and part of the community.

 

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Pledges to Scotland’s Play Charter

  • Dunblane Youth & Sports Centre Trust
  • Holy Cross Nursery Class
  • Edible Estates
  • Maggie’s Childminding Service
  • Toybox Children’s Centre
  • Support from the Start Haddington Cluster
  • Child Central Training
  • 3D Drumchapel
  • Emerald Maintenance
  • Goodlyburn Primary School
  • Welly Walkers Childminding
  • The Scottish Parliament
  • Cardonald Primary School
  • Enchanted Forest Nursery
  • PlayBase
  • St Joseph’s Primary School
  • East Park
  • St Peter’s RC Primary School
  • Babysign
  • Movement Park
  • Argyll College
  • Healthy n Happy CDT
  • North United Communities
  • Glebelands Nursery
  • Heathfield Primary & Early Years Centre
  • Tarves Primary School
  • Hanover Street School
  • Little Scallywags Nursery
  • Busy Bees Nursery
  • Borders College
  • Bridge of Weir Childcare
  • Healthy Valleys
  • Leaps and Bounds Activities (LBA)
  • Support from the Start North Berwick Cluster
  • Jordanhill Out of School Service
  • North Queensferry Primary
  • Broomhill OOSC
  • Wardie Primary School
  • North Edinburgh Arts
  • Bankhead After School Care Service
  • Step by Step Nursery
  • Simpson Primary School & Nursery Class
  • City of Edinburgh Council
  • Nurture the Play
  • Outdoor Cleghorn
  • Crieff Hydro
  • Loader Monteith
  • Monkey Puzzle Glasgow Central
  • Houston Primary School
  • Oxgangs Primary School
  • Aberdeen City Council
  • Linthaugh Nursery School
  • Mosstodloch Primary School
  • Inclusive Play
  • Play Midlothian
  • Melrose Primary School
  • Together – Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights
  • Operation Play Outdoors
  • Professional Learning Academy
  • The Cottage Family Centre
  • Burnfoot Community School
  • Corstorphine Primary School
  • Coastguard Club
  • Barnardo’s APNA Project
  • Edzell Nursery
  • EA Junior School
  • St Andrew’s RC Primary School
  • Cairnsmoir Connections
  • Crieff Hydro Kids Club
  • East Ayrshire Council
  • Lamlash Early Years Class
  • St Gerard’s Nursery School
  • Pentlands Activity Camps (PAC)
  • Scalloway Youth & Community Centre
  • Hearts and Minds
  • The Destiny Project
  • St Peter’s Primary School
  • Home-Start Lorn
  • Gullane After School Club
  • Newton Nursery
  • Òganan Ghlaschu
  • The Wee Childcare Company Ltd
  • Falkirk Council
  • James Gillespie’s Nursery
  • Kinneil Primary School and Early Years Campus
  • First 4 Kids
  • Play Together on Pedals
  • St Boswells Primary School
  • Little Steps Childminding
  • University of the West of Scotland
  • Angus Council
  • Newtown Primary School
  • CHAS
  • Fields in Trust Scotland
  • Crossmichael Primary School
  • PlayBoard NI
  • Cookfur Nursery Class
  • Support for Families
  • Youth Scotland
  • St David’s Primary School
  • Fun Lodge After School Care
  • North Ayrshire Council
  • Fife Play Resource, Fife Play Development Team, Fife Council
  • Little Forest Friends Scotland
  • Wellgreen Nursery, Stirling
  • Middleton Park School
  • Fenton Barns Nursery
  • Greener Kirkcaldy
  • Ark Out of School Care
  • Abbey Early Years Centre
  • New College Lanarkshire
  • Law Primary School and North Berwick Nursery School
  • Gargurnnock Play Group
  • Aberdeenshire Council
  • The Creativity Portal
  • Canongate Youth
  • Scottish Out of School Care Network
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • Sgoil-àraich Taobh na Pàirce
  • Tweeddale Youth Action
  • Play and Sports Limited
  • Scaraway Nursery School
  • Pilton Youth and Children’s Project
  • West Dunbartonshire Council
  • Childcare in the Community
  • Bruce Family Centre
  • Craigton Primary School
  • Eastmuir Primary School
  • Clydesdale After School Care
  • Park Primary School
  • Craiglockhart After School Club
  • Starcatchers
  • St Ninians Nursery
  • Stepping Stones North
  • Croftamie Nursery
  • Arran High School
  • ASH Scotland
  • Ninewells Nursery
  • Holmston Out of Skool Club
  • Renfrewshire Council
  • Doune Nursery
  • Evanton Wood Community Company
  • Home-Start Kincardine
  • Echline Primary School and Nursery Class
  • Borestone Primary School
  • St Ninian’s Primary School
  • Culture NL
  • West Lothian Council
  • St Sylvester’s Primary School
  • Children’s Health Scotland
  • Giffnock Nursery Class
  • Quarriers
  • PEEK Project
  • Almond Park Nursery
  • TIGERS
  • Mud Pie
  • Smart Play Network
  • Lanarkshire Childcare Services
  • Upstart Scotland
  • Buttons & Bows Nursery School
  • MACS After School Care
  • Alyth OOSC
  • Scalloway Pre-School
  • Rosemount Lifelong Learning
  • Home-Start Wigtownshire
  • Chatelherault Nursery & ASC
  • West College Scotland
  • Parent Action for Safe Play
  • Cambusbarron Village Nursery
  • Gingerbread
  • Dirleton Playgroup
  • SPELL
  • Black Lion Games
  • Sacred Heart Primary School
  • Leisure and Culture
  • South Lanarkshire Council
  • Springfield Primary School
  • Holy Corner Community Playgroup
  • Play Alloa
  • St George’s School for Girls
  • Green Aspirations Scotland CIC
  • Firsthand Lothian
  • East of the Sun, West of the Moon
  • Grange Primary School
  • Scottish Historic Buildings Trust
  • Oxley Park Academy
  • Hillwood Primary School
  • Ayrshire College
  • NHS Forth Valley
  • Thornlie Primary School
  • Commercial Primary School
  • NG Homes
  • Child’s Play Nursery
  • Firpark Primary School
  • Riverside Primary School
  • Craigour Park Primary School and Nursery
  • Holy Cross Primary School
  • Cornerstone Nursery
  • Scout Association
  • Early Education UK
  • St Columba’s Junior School
  • Fife Gingerbread
  • Balmore Kindergarten Ltd
  • Pirie Park Primary School
  • South Lanarkshire College
  • Rattray Primary School
  • Clackmannanshire Council
  • St Paul’s Primary School
  • YouthLink Scotland
  • City of Play
  • University of Strathclyde
  • Newmains Family Learning Centre
  • Cumbernauld YMCA
  • Guildford Borough Council Playrangers
  • Timberplay Scotland Ltd
  • St Martin’s Primary School and Nursery
  • Woodland Outdoor Kindergartens
  • Creative STAR
  • Prestonpans ASC
  • Interactive Play Scotland
  • MyParkScotland
  • Seamab
  • Fledglings Childminding Service
  • Smallworld Out of School Club
  • Antonine Primary School
  • Education Department East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Linnvale Primary
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Biggar Primary School and Nursery
  • Bikeability
  • Project 31
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Maxwellton Park Nursery & OSC
  • Tingwall Primary School
  • Parenting Across Scotland
  • Aberlady ELOSCN
  • Wallyford Primary School
  • Kids Come First
  • C.O.J.A.C. Caring Operations Joint Action Council
  • Castleton Primary School
  • Outlet Play Resource
  • Woodlands Family Nurture Centre
  • Argyle Bridge Children’s Nursery
  • Red Harbour Events
  • Newtongrange ASC
  • Task Childcare Services
  • With Kids
  • Cosy Cottage Nursery School
  • South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
  • Leaps and Bounds Nursery
  • Islesburgh OOSC
  • Shetland College UHI
  • Angus Alive
  • Child’s Play
  • PLUS Forth Valley Ltd
  • St Mary’s Nursery Class
  • LINKES
  • Auchinairn Afterschool Care & Forest School
  • Whiteinch Centre
  • Off Grid Kids
  • Muck Primary School
  • Oxfordshire Play Association
  • Gylemuir After School Club
  • Wee Gems
  • Support from the Start Prestonpans Cluster
  • Scottish Book Trust
  • Iona Primary Early Years
  • Reidvale Adventure Play Association Limited
  • Busby Primary School
  • Impact Arts
  • Support from the Start Dunbar Cluster
  • Adoption UK
  • Aberlour Childcare Trust
  • Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax Improvement Foundation
  • Voluntary Action
  • St David’s Primary RC
  • Allan’s Nursery
  • Make Mess Matter
  • Culture & Leisure
  • The Green Team
  • Warout Primary School
  • Clovenstone Primary School
  • Burnbrae Primary School
  • Seahorse Nursery
  • Busy Bairns Childminder
  • Whinhill Primary School
  • The Nurture Nursery
  • Kilbarchan AAC
  • Udston Primary School
  • Forgandenny Primary School
  • Eyemouth Primary School
  • Camperdown Primary School and Nursery
  • Adelaides Nursery
  • Lauriston Nursery
  • Jordanhill School
  • Glenbervie Kindergarden
  • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
  • St Rose of Lima Primary School
  • NHS GGC Children and Families
  • Gap Childcare Services
  • The Yard
  • Beatlie Primary School
  • The BIG Project
  • Fountainhall Nursery
  • Families First, North Lanarkshire Council
  • Play Borders
  • Include Me 2 Club
  • Support from the Start Musselburgh Cluster
  • Edinburgh Young Carers Project
  • Dundee and Angus College
  • NHS West Dunbartonshire
  • Langlee Support Centre, Langlee Primary School
  • Beech House Nursery
  • Arkleston Primary School
  • Liberton After School Club
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • Simply Play
  • St Denis’ Primary School
  • Innerwick Primary and Nursery School
  • East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Midlothian Sure Start
  • Dens Road Primary School
  • Aberfoyle Nursery
  • West Johnstone Early Learning and Childcare Centre
  • Dunbar Primary School Nursery
  • Licketyspit
  • NHS Health Scotland
  • Stanmore House School – Capability Scotland
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • Mini Me Yoga Ambassador
  • Parsons Green Primary
  • Home-Start East Fife
  • Inverbrothock OOSC
  • Hayburn Park Association
  • Support, Help and Integration in Perthshire
  • Enable Scotland
  • Gowrie Training and Consultancy
  • Getting Better Together
  • Dumfries Toy Library
  • Queens Cross Housing Association
  • Enterprise Childcare
  • Castlepark Primary School
  • Twinkle Stars Childcare
  • Inspiring Scotland
  • University of Dundee
  • Edinburgh and Lothians Out of School Care Network
  • Knightswood Primary
  • Playland
  • Bòrd na Gàidhlig
  • Mid Calder Primary School
  • Barnardo’s Scotland
  • Fife College
  • Abbey Mill Childcare
  • East Lothian Out of School Care Network
  • St Margaret’s Primary School
  • Allsorts Dornoch
  • High School of Dundee
  • South Morningside Primary School and Nursery
  • Bonding with Baby
  • Johnshaven School
  • Hyndland After School Club
  • St Charles’ Primary School
  • What’s on Inverbervie Community
  • CALL Scotland
  • Galleon Centre
  • Sciennes Primary School
  • Muirhouse Youth Development Group
  • KO-NEKT (Childcare)
  • Windygoul Primary School
  • Siblings Together and Reunited (STAR)
  • Tinies
  • Glasgow Life
  • Little Lunches
  • Fife Childcare Services
  • Barlanark Out of School Care
  • Kidsize Out of School Club
  • Elphinstone Primary
  • Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland
  • Battlefield Primary ASC Association (BPASCA)
  • Summerston Childcare
  • Whiteness Primary School
  • Clermiston Primary School and Nursery
  • TICTACS After School Service
  • OSCARS Childcare
  • Play Torbay
  • Chanonry Beaver Scouts
  • Sgoil Bhaile a’ Mhanaich, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
  • Perth & Kinross Council
  • Falkirk Community Trust Libraries
  • Family Fund Scotland
  • Kidzcare
  • Stramash
  • Bright Starts Nursery
  • Carli’s Kindergarten
  • Flowerpots Childcare
  • Dalmilling Primary School
  • Tiptoe’s Children’s Nursery
  • Access Parkour Ltd
  • Jennyswell Out of School Care
  • East Pollockshields Out of School Care
  • International Play Association Scotland
  • Boomerang Community Centre
  • Flowerbank Early Childhood Centre
  • Tweedbank Early Learners
  • Gracemount Nursery
  • Maddiston Primary School
  • Milltimber Playgroup
  • Shetland Islands Council
  • Mini French
  • Gleniffer Nursery
  • Whitburn and District Community Development Trust
  • WHALE Arts
  • The Concrete Garden
  • South Ayrshire Council
  • Orchard Grove Kindergarten
  • Outdoor Woodland Learning School (OWLS)
  • Meadowburn Primary School
  • Lecropt Nursery and Bridge of Allan OOSC
  • Orkney Library and Archive
  • Caldercuilt Primary School & Nursery
  • Scottish Government
  • Cockburnspath Primary School
  • Parkour UK
  • St Leonard’s Primary and Nursery School
  • Childcare Strategy Team
  • Musselburgh Burgh Primary School
  • Tinto Nursery
  • Laura’s Little Treasures
  • City of Glasgow College
  • Forestry and Land Scotland
  • Erskine Stewart Melville School
  • Earthtime for All Ltd
  • Murrayburn Primary School
  • Fusion Childcare Services
  • North Edinburgh Childcare
  • Towerbank ASC
  • East Lothian Play Association
  • Edinburgh College
  • Support from the Start Tranent Cluster
  • Balornock Primary School
  • St Thomas Playgroup
  • Pencaitland Primary School Parent Council
  • Little Acorns
  • Home-Start Edinburgh West and South West
  • Scamps SOSC
  • Our Place Our Families
  • Argyll & Bute Council
  • Penicuik YMCA-YWCA
  • East End Empowering Stars
  • Forest School Leader
  • Living Streets Scotland
  • Four Seasons Nursery
  • Meiklewood Nursery and After School Care
  • ACE Place Nursery and OSC
  • St John’s RC Primary
  • Highland Council
  • First Nursery
  • Preschool Academy
  • Stirling Play Services, Stirling Council
  • Perth Autism Support
  • Home-Start Levenmouth
  • Rosetta Early Learners
  • Stirling ELC
  • Holy Corner Community Group
  • RHC NHS GGC
  • Early Steps Nursery
  • Roots and Shoots Highland Learning

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