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Category: Life in the time of Covid.19 – Diary

Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 19

10 April 2020

Day 19: making the most of Easter in isolation Today my dog turns…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 12

3 April 2020

Day 12: birthday in lockdown Today was the day that was supposed to…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 10

1 April 2020

Day 10: a little normality I spent this morning sitting in the garden with…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 9

31 March 2020

Day 9: coping Today was a very slow start indeed. When my alarm…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 8

30 March 2020

Day 8: strange times Today I woke up to bright sunshine and warmth….

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 6

28 March 2020

Day 6: making the best of lockdown Not much happened today until the…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 5

27 March 2020

Day 5: old habits This morning, I tried to give myself a lie…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 4

26 March 2020

Day 4: routine As of today, I’ve decided to set my morning alarm…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 3

25 March 2020

Day 3: getting into the swing of things When I woke up this…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 2

24 March 2020

Day 2: a new normal Today I woke to the sun shining through…

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Life in the time of Covid.19 – Self isolation as a teenager. Day 1

23 March 2020

At Play Scotland we have always been aware of the importance of play…

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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

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