Topic: #childsplay

I redesigned a school playground for my PhD – and the children got better marks learning outside

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the education of at least 1.5 billion school students. That’s more than 90 per cent of the world’s children. Although many schools in the west, along with private schools in...Read more

19-06-2020|Comment|author: Matluba Khan

Play access in cities is critical to children’s development – report

Society has ‘an obligation to reclaim play in cities’ because of the ‘critical role’ it plays in child development and learning, says a global play rights alliance. The Real Play Coalition says the evidence is overwhelming...Read more

13-02-2020|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

That public playground is good for your kids and your wallet

If you live near a public playground it can be a convenient outdoor destination for short excursions and a life-saving source of pressure relief when the kids are too surly to bear inside the house....Read more

07-01-2020|Comment|author: Robert Breunig

Children ‘benefit from mixed-age play’

A generation ago, play was something most parents thought about. On a nice day, parents would send kids out into the neighbourhood in the morning, telling them to be back for dinner. That’s rare these...Read more

13-11-2019|Comment|author: Simon Weedy