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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

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

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