A New Vision for Outdoors
We are hugely excited to announce the latest Play Learning Life collaboration with Nursery World magazine - a series of 3 online training...
Thank you, Postcode Lottery players!
A huge "thank you” to players of the People's Postcode Lottery from all of us at Play Learning Life, as we reach the end of our project...
Seeds of change... Erasmus +
The PAPPUS project will disperse seeds of change in the lives of young people, using the natural world, botany and horticulture, in a playfu
Early Years Spring Summit 2019
Monday 29th April marks day one of Kathy Brodie's 'Early Years Spring Summit'. Each spring, Kathy rounds up a range of early years...
STEM Outdoors: action research CPD for KS1+2
Our new action research style CPD course brings you our most effective, tried and tested ideas to take STEM learning outdoors. The...
Beyond the Pond
Are school ponds making a comeback? In recent months I've visited several schools with sadly unloved ponds, yet each school expresses l
3, 4 Open the Door
Felicity and I have been updating our CPD courses - the first one to get the treatment is our brilliant (if we do say it ourselves) early...
Fabulous Free + Found
I admit it: I steal; I scavenge; I can't walk past a skip without peering into it. And I blame my mum. As a child, the principles of...
Outdoor play, learning and development - DVD box set training programme
For young children, movement and physical development is an intrinsic part of their learning experience. It is closely linked to their...
CPD twilight: language and literacy
UPDATE MARCH 2019 Do your school grounds do their bit to improve outcomes for children? A generous grant from the Ernest Cook Trust...
Let's stick together (part 1)
Stop Press - Play Learning Life's obsession with sticks goes global (sort of): we were delighted to be asked to write about our (somewhat...
