Things to consider in a School Age Childcare setting Date: Tuesday 11 August Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Platform: Zoom Are you planning to reopen your childcare setting in August? If so, your local HSCT Early Years Team will require you to develop a Risk Assessment which includes details on [...]
Today (5 August), across Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, children and young people, their families, and their communities, are Making a Big Noise for Playday, the national day for play. Recognising the importance of children’s play and supporting children to play in carefree ways, on Playday [...]
The countdown to Playday 2020 is on! In the run up to Playday on 5 August, PlayBoard is counting down our top three play props. These are everyday items or loose parts that we can all find at home or in the garden which can be used in lots of different [...]
Playday is the national day for play in the UK, celebrated this year on Wednesday 5 August. The theme for 2020 is Everyday Freedoms Everyday Adventures. Big Playday events aren’t being held this year. So, we need your help to celebrate Playday in your community. We are calling on families, [...]
Date: 10 July Time: 11:15am – 12:15pm Platform: Zoom As the Childcare Sector begins to emerge from the impact of lockdown, in order to maintain safe play spaces for our children certain restrictions have been put in place. Normally, busy Summer Schemes are underway with the frenzy of activities [...]
** FULLY BOOKED ** Play, the Curriculum and Practical based learning. Returning to school in September 2020 will be a time of change for everyone involved; school staff, school communities and most importantly for school children. PlayBoard, as the lead agency for the promotion of play [...]
We talk a lot about legacy and how it impacts on our ‘everyday’. Of course we all have a legacy. It’s the one that gets our foot to tap when a bit of music comes on, or to jump and head an imaginary ball when the winger puts the [...]
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 children can feel [...]
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 was 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 [...]
