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Category: Blog

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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Family cycling: how to create a new daily routine

24 March 2020

Our friends at Cycling UK who are our partners on the Play Together…

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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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Playday Event in Kilmarnock

24 July 2019

Playday activities are taking place in Kay park, Kilmarnock! There will be a…

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Let them play! Kids need freedom from play restrictions to develop

10 June 2019

Unstructured play improves learning and social and physical development. Providing a variety of play options, improved play access and…

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Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests

7 June 2019

Children who regularly walk or cycle to school are less likely to be…

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Toddlers Want to Help and We Should Let Them

6 June 2019

If allowed to help, toddlers become great work partners later in childhood.  Full…

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How to build cities fit for children

6 June 2019

After decades on the margins, child-friendly urban planning and design is emerging into the…

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Brain Hierarchy: When Your Child’s Lower Brain Levels Are Weak, they Can’t Learn

6 June 2019

Did you know that the brain of an infant contains essentially all the…

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Letting kids play outdoors improves their mental health: Study

19 April 2019

Many Baby Boomers grew up spending hours on end playing outside with other…

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Training new doctors through child’s play

19 April 2019

There is an old adage, that children are the best teachers. And for…

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Shaped by play and inclusive play

16 April 2019

Play has an invaluable role in encouraging child development. But play isn’t just…

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Shaped by play and inclusive play

29 March 2019

Play has an invaluable role in encouraging child development. But play isn’t just…

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What Is Snowplough Parenting –And Should You Be Concerned About It?

29 March 2019

Some parents won’t let anything get in their child’s way. Not even an…

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Study: Kids Who Spend Time in Nature Become Happier Adults

27 March 2019

 At this point it seems the evidence is overwhelming—new studies seem to arrive…

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Rethinking the rights of children for the internet age

21 March 2019

The internet is now 30 years old, making it the same age as…

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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

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

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