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Category: Blog

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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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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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

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

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