Mental Health Awareness Week, led by the Mental Health Foundation, runs from 18-24 May across the UK. The theme of the week this year is Kindness. Play is instrumental in supporting children and young people’s mental health and resilience and can have similar benefits for adults too. Through play [...]
National Children’s Day is celebrated across the UK on 17 May 2020. To mark the day PlayBoard shared a challenge for children and young people to celebrate 35 years since the organisation was established. The challenge is to recreate our 35th anniversary logo (see the story image). This could [...]
How many of us as children, wished to have an endless summer where we didn’t have to go to school and we could play all day in the sunshine? I’m “just” old enough to remember 1976 when we enjoyed long, hot summer days which brought an eventual drought because [...]
Playday 2020 will take place on Wednesday 5 August. The theme for this year’s Playday is ... Everyday Freedoms Everyday Adventures. The Playday 2020 theme aims to highlight the importance of giving children and teenagers the freedom to play and have everyday adventures – at home. As well as [...]
The Childcare Partnerships aim to develop and support quality play and learning environments within the early years sector to ensure quality play and learning experiences for children. Services within the early years sector include Out of School services, Childminders, Day Care and Playgroups. The Childcare Partnerships have developed an [...]
Safer Internet Day takes place on Tuesday 11 February, with the aim to inspire a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively. This year Safer Internet Day in the UK is encouraging young people to explore how they manage their online identity, and how the internet [...]
To support the Government strategy in relation to Covid-19 Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council have made decisions in response to public safety and have postponed all future play sessions in the Play in the Community Programme at this time. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. [...]
At a time of increasing environmental awareness it is important that we all play our part in looking after the planet and consider the changes we can make to help protect the environment. To support providers PlayBoard NI hosted a number of Eco Play Clusters, designed to assist providers [...]
PlayBoard NI marks World Children’s Day World Children’s Day took place on 20 November with this year celebrating 30 years since the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention establishes the rights that all children everywhere are entitled to, including the right [...]
Alan Herron, Director of Service Delivery & Development and Peter McCartney, Training Coordinator with PlayBoard NI called into the NVTV studios recently to discuss PlayBoard’s work. Take a look at the video to watch Alan and Peter discuss why Play Matters, why it is so crucial to children's healthy [...]
