National Week of Play

Play Week 2025: How children play is as important as 'what' they learn

This year’s Play Week has the focus ‘My Play, My Way’ – paying tribute to children...Read more

Little Hands, Big adventures: Sensory play for early development

For children aged 0-5 years, engaging in sensory play can enhance cognitive, language, motor, and social skills. However, many adults may feel unsure about how to effectively incorporate sensory activities for children into their daily routines....Read more

More than words

Does anyone else remember the song ‘I can sing a rainbow’ that features the line “Listen with your eyes”? As a child I was always perplexed by this but now that I’m grown up...Read more

Play is never ‘just’ play!

This month sees two important events that remind us (as if we need reminding), of the power and importance of play for children’s development and wellbeing. Read more

The power of play: Play for all children

Eve Whistler is a nursery teacher who works in a primary school in England. In...Read more

The importance of play

How the BBC’s Tiny Happy People can help you and your team support parents and encourage playtime at homeRead more

Connecting with families

Loving relationships are essential to supporting children’s learning and development, but these relationships are of equal importance to families too. To be able to best provide children with supporting environments, adults need to...Read more

Connecting to our minds

Mental health‘…the emotional and spiritual resilience which allows us to enjoy life and survive pain, disappointment and sadness. It is a positive sense of well-being and an underlying belief in our own, and others’,...Read more

Connecting with each other – supporting children to make friends

An important aspect of children’s personal, social, and emotional development (PSED) is to “learn how to make good friendships, co-operate and resolve conflicts peaceably” (EYFS para, 1.6)Read more

Play as a force for inclusion

I was sitting in a hot, stuffy classroom one mid-afternoon in rural Kenya. As I sat there, the meeting drawing to a close and the stifling air clinging to my skin, I was struck by something a teacher said. Read more

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