#playwork #childcare #earlyyears #play New book on the Play Cycle out 20th August 2025. Currently 20% off the paperback on the Routledge website
Latest posts tagged with #playWork on Bluesky
#playwork #childcare #earlyyears #play New book on the Play Cycle out 20th August 2025. Currently 20% off the paperback on the Routledge website
Photo shows in the foreground a hand holding a wooden block with felt tip markings on it to turn it into a play phone. It says "panda phone" on the side. In the background a soft toy panda sits hunched over its own block phone
play diary episode one:
bounce drum eyes eyes eyes
repeatedly hung up on
by dextrous panda
#play #playwork #playdiary #autisticplay
Day 23 - tried to use the strong gusts to do some wind painting and had great fun using the herbs to make potions and perfumes - lemon balm is the current favourite #30DaysWild #forestschool #playwork
A healthcare worker with a dementia patient playing with a wooden toy.
Academics at LBU researching #dementia and #playwork have collaborated to implement and evaluate a pioneering programme introducing play and playfulness to adults living with advanced dementia at a care home in #Leeds.
🔗 bit.ly/3ZHpKG8
Read more on our blog! #AcademicSky #research #LBUResearch
Day 16 - playing sensory bingo under a blue sky - we had lots of fun making bark rubbings and creating our names out of twigs. And we saw long tailed tits and a deer #30DaysWild #playwork #forestschool
Day 13 - we discovered leaf-cutter #bees at work this afternoon. The children were mesmerised #30DaysWild #forestschool #playwork
Max @playradical.bsky.social doesn't do much social media, so I forgot he actually has an account here! Also, you probably won't have heard his podcast with Sarah Burton.
#autistic #playWork
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Today, we had the honour of hosting Prof Fraser Brown at Somerford Grove Adventure Playground for 2 powerful talks:
1️⃣ Playwork’s Guiding Rule in 1975 – still valid?
2️⃣ Therapeutic Playwork in a Romanian hospital
Freedom, healing, and the radical power of play. 💥
#Playwork #PlayMatters
Thank you! Anomalies abound indeed. And shifting the narrative is a part of it, which is why I stubbornly stick to mine and don't just go down a pragmatic line of giving funders what they ask for. If anyone's interested, my post was about evaluating #playwork:
www.linkedin.com/posts/wendy-...
Building on our theme of play, I'll be chatting with Chloe & Mike from @leedsbeckett.bsky.social to find out more about their research on #playwork within #carehomes. Interested to find out more?
emmasmith561.clickmeeting.com/in-conversat...
#dementia #webinar #play #creativity #connections
Katherine receives our Award from Caroline
Katherine Lindsay Dunlop is pictured receiving our UK Playwork Sector Award from Caroline Kerr, Awards compère.
The Award was announced at the 15th Annual Playwork Awards, which recognise organisations and individuals making a difference to children, young people, and communities through #playwork
Congratulations on being shortlisted. We are so proud that your #playwork is recognised. Two members of the team appearing in this category is fantastic @cpckc @mudiadmeithrin @earlyyearswales Ardderchog! Rydym mor falch ohonoch! Gwych gwych gwych #excellentrolemodelstoo #teamplayers
Text reads: 15th Annual Playwork Awards The Award Recipients 2025 The UK Playwork Sector Award 2025 PlayBoard NI
We're delighted to share that we have won the UK #Playwork Sector Award 2025 at the 15th Annual Playwork Awards! 🤩
It's especially meaningful to receive recognition as this year, we're marking 40 years of championing children's #RightToPlay. A huge well done to #TeamPlayBoard!
Picture of an award certificate for Play Gloucestershire's Play2Nurture project, received at the National Playwork Conference National Playwork Award ceremony in Eastbourne (Altogether Different award category). Next to the certificate is a 'pecker' - playwork's version of a trophy. In the background is the sea and Eastbourne pier.
Massive congrats to @playglos.bsky.social! The #Play2Nurture project really is something altogether different. Read more about it here: playgloucestershire.org.uk/play_2_nurtu...
So many brilliant projects/people nominated. #Playwork changes lives.
#NationalPlayworkConference2025 #ThankYou
If you click on this link www.youtube.com/@drpeteking1... you can access free videos of the The Play Cycle and the Play Cycle Observation Method (PCOM) #playwork #childcare #earlyyears #childhood #play
“This place has a feel. It seeps into the walls & you can feel it when you come in. Every little thing carries a memory. It’s rammed full of imprints of children. There are good stories here.” Play Rangers at @playglos.bsky.social describing The Play Sanctuary #Play2Nurture #GeniusLoci #playwork
#playwork #play #childcare #earlyyears #childhood Now moved my professional social media onto here. Follow and I'll follow back.
Hello #play and #playwork people. I'm trying to have a bit of a clearout. I have a colllection of UK play and playwork sector publications and other archives from the 1980s onwards. Would anyone like them? Any ideas who might?
Play in the dark. For all who need children to play on the longest day in the northern hemisphere, lots of suggestions here creativestarlearning.co.uk/early-years-... #eyoutdoors
#playwork #forestschool #childrennature #outdoored #riskyplay #primaryoutdoors #KS1outdoors #KS2outdoors
#play #playwork #childhoodstudies #earlychldhoodstudies #play-basedlearning I've moved from X/Twitter to here with a professional account. I'm a senior lecturer as Swansea University.
This short video about Gwealan Tops Adventure Playground's new kitchen gives an excellent flavour of what #AdventurePlaygrounds and #Playwork are all about
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYL...
Maybe if I use hashtags?
#childrights
#ChildParticipation
#childrenhumanrightsdefenders
#childethics
#childresearch
#EducationRights
#EndViolence
#HumanRightsDefender
#participation
#participatoryresearch
#play
#playwork
#RightToPlay
#UNCRC
#youthaction
#YouthParticipation
Now wait and see....