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Learning through ‘guided’ play can be as effective as adult-led instruction up to at least age eight

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Play-based learning may also have a more positive effect on younger children’s acquisition of important early maths skills compared with traditional, direct instruction

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Can Play-Based Learning Be Used in the Secondary Classroom?

Richard Rogers

Does secondary school learning have to be all work and no play? Article by Richard Rogers.

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UKEdMag: How play boosts success and happiness in children, by Sam Flatman

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Success and happiness are what every parent wants for their child and every teacher for

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Windy day play ideas

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The wind is no reason to stay inside, with a little extra thought and imagination you can have hours of fun playing out in the wind…

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Break times shortened in England schools

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Research undertaken by University College in London has found that school break times in England

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Don’t blame adolescent social behaviour on hormones

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Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behaviour that

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Oddly Enough… (Make Your Curriculum Strange) by @perfinker

Gillian Judson

Poetry. Boring? Government. Ordinary? Math. Lifeless? We think not. I had the pleasure this week of working with

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The UKEd Podcast – Episode 14 – @StarbuckEdu – Play & EYFS

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Hosted by @digicoled, this episode we release the audio of one of the presentations from the

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Children who play outside more likely to protect nature as adults

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Protecting the environment can be as easy as telling your kids to go outdoors and

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The Power of Scalextrics by @chrisbourne2win

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During one of the standard visits to see family and friends recently, I came across

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Following the Children’s Interests by @ElamJessica

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It’s very early days with my new Year 1 class. We’ve had a lovely couple

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Feature – 11 Activities for after SATs Exams

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Do we over complicate loose parts? by @mcclaryrachel

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For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term loose parts, check out my

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Creativity just makes my heart sing by @eyfsmatters

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I love watching children explore and create with loose parts. One little poppety and her

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University of Bradford to host first Play + Learn Conference

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– The University of Bradford is hosting the UK’s first conference exploring how play and

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