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Category: Articles

New Playful Pedagogy Resource from Play Scotland to support everyday learning adventures across the school

21 October 2020

Playful Pedagogy is a way of integrating children’s play experiences with curricular learning, giving…

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announcement

3 July 2020

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced, “We want to help children enjoy these summer…

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Lockdown: children’s mental health

8 June 2020

Children and young people are likely to experience high rates of depression and…

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IPA Play in Crisis: support for parents and carers

13 April 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on children and families around the…

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Active Students Could Outperform Sitting Students by 16%

4 December 2018

The BBC has published an article detailing new research on active students. “International research found…

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UK Poverty Report from JRF

4 December 2018

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has this week published the 2018 Poverty Report, you…

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Are you Going to Join The Playtime Revolution?

23 October 2013

Many children and young people only get out to play when they are…

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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

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

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