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Homework that makes a difference: the educational benefits of play with friends and family Blog from David Whitebread, Director of PEDAL Research Centre, University of Cambridge
30 June 2016
As the school year across Europe comes to an end and children look…
Read more »‘Get children playing outdoors’ to improve academic success and reduce obesity
29 June 2016
Campaigns to promote physical activity and reduce obesity among children should focus more…
Read more »My kids should really thank me for ignoring them this summer
29 June 2016
My summers as a child were defined by the time I spent on…
Read more »‘Get children playing outdoors’ to improve academic success and reduce obesity
23 June 2016
Campaigns to promote physical activity and reduce obesity among children should focus more…
Read more »Making Space 2016: Our Space award
23 June 2016
Making Space 2016: an international award for excellence in the design of spaces for…
Read more »Letters from children provide insights into the child friendly city
23 June 2016
Children’s letters on what they find to be a child-friendly city can guide…
Read more »Blog – A toolkit for developing child friendly towns and cities
22 June 2016
A child friendly city implements children’s rights in local policy. Cities can use…
Read more »Wild and Free
21 June 2016
One of the most courageous steps I have ever taken, will always be the…
Read more »Loose parts play is highly engaging for children – Blog
10 June 2016
When community activities attempt to be ‘child and family friendly’, we often see…
Read more »Tolerance, young people and public space – Blog
10 June 2016
Research indicates that adolescence is a period of significant mental and social development, where…
Read more »UNCRC Full report on the concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the United Kingdom
10 June 2016
You can view the full report here
Read more »The Good School Playground Guide
9 June 2016
This guide has been written to help make that ambition a reality. It…
Read more »Cooped up children lose out in health and happiness stakes say UK’s worried parents
31 May 2016
Children in the UK are falling behind in the happiness stakes because they…
Read more »Encouraging Children to Play Outside
30 May 2016
As adults, most of us have hazy memories of long summer holidays as…
Read more »Let them eat dirt! Our obsession with hygiene is jeopardising our children’s health
30 May 2016
It’s a nerve-wrecking time to be a parent. Every week, mothers are chastised…
Read more »Show or tell: How should educators and playworkers back up their real-time decisions about risk?
26 May 2016
This post explores how the real-time decisions of educators, playworkers and other staff…
Read more »Children’s Right to Play and the Environment
25 May 2016
(18 May 2016) The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2016…
Read more »Dirt is not dirty – how playing in the dirt benefits the immune system
25 May 2016
At present, our culture is overly obsessive about germs, cleanliness, and hygiene. Parents…
Read more »Creative play: In praise of getting messy
17 May 2016
If your Mother’s Day flower looked more like a squashed bug or you…
Read more »Reasons for Grown Up Recess!
17 May 2016
Remember sitting in the classroom, watching the clock and praying for the bell…
Read more »THE UNSAFE CHILD: Less Outdoor Play is Causing More Harm than Good
13 May 2016
The third grade classroom that was visiting our nature center for the day…
Read more »Lessons from ‘The Goonies,’ and from the loss of unsupervised time for kids
13 May 2016
I was watching “The Goonies” with my 8-year-old son recently. It was an…
Read more »How playing with “loose parts” can be highly engaging
13 May 2016
“In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility…
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