National Week of play to focus on helping children build relationship with the natural world
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Play
  • May 11, 2022
Alliance launches second National Week of Play focused on protecting the planet through play
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Play
  • May 5, 2022
Young children do better at school if their dads draw, play and paint with them regularly, study finds
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Attainment Pupil performance Play Parental engagement
  • Apr 21, 2022
Exhibition launches exploring how Covid-19 impacted children’s play
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Research Covid impact Play
  • Mar 23, 2022
How to tackle the decline in children's play skills
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Play Child development
  • Feb 18, 2022
Playtime: Is it time we took 'play' more seriously?
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Play
  • Jan 13, 2022
The playful academic
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  • Dec 15, 2021
BPS launches Time to Play campaign as survey reveals high level of parents’ fears about effect of pandemic on primary school playtime
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Play Covid impact
  • Sep 22, 2021
National Week of Play launched by Early Years Alliance
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Play
  • Jun 21, 2021
Lockdown lack of play harmed young pupils, parents say
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Coronavirus Lockdown Play Wellbeing
  • May 20, 2021
The Guardian view on child’s play: help kids be themselves | Editorial
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Play Playgrounds
  • Apr 25, 2021
Skip the kindergarten cop routine: free play is vital for young children | Michael Rosen
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Early years Play
  • Apr 23, 2021
Call for more play time amid ‘schoolification’ of UK childhood
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Play Schoolification
  • Apr 23, 2021
‘Let children play’: the educational message from across Europe
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Play Schoolification
  • Apr 23, 2021
Academics to create record of children’s play during the pandemic
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Coronavirus Play Research
  • Mar 31, 2021
Scotland commits to ‘Summer of Play’ for all children
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Coronavirus Scotland School holidays Play Socialising
  • Mar 30, 2021
‘Children must be able to catch up on play too’, says children’s commissioner
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Coronavirus School closures Catch up tuition Mental health Wellbeing Play
  • Mar 22, 2021
Under-12s should be allowed to mix outdoors, campaigners say
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Coronavirus Outdoors Play Discrimination Lockdown Mental health
  • Mar 15, 2021
Allowing children to play together should be a bigger priority than catching up on school work
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Coronavirus School reopening Catch up tuition Learning loss Play Mental health Wellbeing
  • Feb 15, 2021
Call for 'summer of play' to help English pupils recover from Covid-19 stress
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Play COVID-19
  • Feb 13, 2021
Children will have to learn to play together again when they return to school, says catch-up tsar
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Coronavirus School reopening Play
  • Feb 8, 2021
Let children play this summer, instead of extra schooling, psychologists urge
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  • Feb 6, 2021
Coronavirus: Call for examples of how children’s play has changed during the pandemic
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Coronavirus Play
  • Nov 26, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: ‘games of social isolation’ now part of toddlers’ play
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Coronavirus Scotland Early years Behaviour Play Social interaction
  • Nov 26, 2020
Nursery children have been playing on their own in silence following lockdown, headteacher says
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Coronavirus Lockdown Early years Play Socialisation
  • Nov 10, 2020
Schools have become 'play-starved stress factories'. We need to let children play, especially now
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Coronavirus Restrictions Play
  • Oct 28, 2020
Why early maths teaching should focus on play
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Maths Play
  • Sep 30, 2020
Our kids have forgotten how to play while cooped up during lockdown, London head warns
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Coronavirus School closures Lockdown Play
  • Jul 2, 2020
Why children need to play with their friends as soon as they can
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Coronavirus Mental health Play Socialisation
  • May 13, 2020
Prioritise play when schools reopen, say mental health experts
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Coronavirus School reopening Play Mental health Wellbeing
  • May 7, 2020
Don't turn your home into school ... Lego prof of play on lockdown learning
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Coronavirus Home learning Play Lego
  • Apr 21, 2020
The importance of play (and why it’s better to avoid bullshit)
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Play Learning
  • Dec 10, 2019
Play-based curriculum benefits young children and teachers
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Play Curriculum
  • Nov 26, 2019
Campaign urges council duty to help children access play
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Play
  • Sep 23, 2019
Forcing children to work in break time is violation of their rights, psychologists say
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Play
  • Jun 15, 2019
EYFS: why risky play is key, and how to support it
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Play
  • Apr 27, 2019
Nurseries urged to let children play in the great outdoors
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Nurseries Childcare Outdoors Play
  • Mar 25, 2019
Bristol nursery locks toys away for a month
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Early years Nurseries Childcare Play
  • Mar 21, 2019
Risk it for a biscuit
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Play Safety
  • Mar 11, 2019
‘Don’t cram children - let them play’
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Play
  • Oct 4, 2018
Do kids get too much homework?
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Homework Play
  • Sep 25, 2018
Get playing to unlock your team's potential at the Nursery World Business Summit
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Play
  • Sep 3, 2018
How play can boost learning for all age groups
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Play Learning
  • Aug 13, 2018
Andrew Sharkey: National Playday: It’s good for adults as well as kids
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Play Playday
  • Aug 1, 2018
Playing outdoors helps younger children get into swing of science
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Science Play
  • Jul 15, 2018
As nurseries ban costumes, we must let our children be superheroes — so they can learn to beat baddies
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Nurseries Early years Play
  • Jul 4, 2018
Promoting children’s wellbeing, and right to make choices and engage in playful activities, in restricted environments through music and singing
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Play Music Wellbeing
  • May 11, 2018
Early years children learn by playing | Letters
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Early years Play Curriculum
  • Apr 3, 2018
Early years is not "just play' it sets children up for life
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Play
  • Jan 6, 2018
Teach Primary 3 to 7: issue 2 - the importance of play
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KS1 Nursery schools Primary schools Transition Play
  • Oct 7, 2017
Tom Bennett: play is essential, but it takes work for children to succeed in the real world | Tom Bennett
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Guardian Tom Bennett Play Lego University of Cambridge
  • May 28, 2017
Reflecting on Gopnik's play being "an act of spontaneous exuberance"
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Early education Early years Nurseries Play Resources
  • Apr 28, 2017