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Tag: Outdoor play and learning

The importance of risk in childhood play experiences

7 August 2024

Ask any group of adults about their most stand-out play memories and two…

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How Amazing Playtimes Develop Language in Primary School Children

25 June 2024

It is fair to say that my job is pretty enjoyable. I work…

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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

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

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