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Playing Out Every Day

Lindsay Derbyshire posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing, Community on 27/04/2016

You know that ordinary looking building you pass with a dirt track running beside it? Have you ever…

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The Differences Playing Out Has Made

Jo Chesterman posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing on 23/02/2016

Jo Chesterman, a street organiser in the St George area of Bristol, charts the many changes on her…

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“I don’t know what to do!” In Praise of Boredom for Children

Ingrid Skeels posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing on 30/07/2015

Like all children, mine rail against boredom when they encounter it. They want it stopped or solved as…

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Dylan Thomas, Parks and Playing Outside the Play Area

Ingrid posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing on 05/05/2015

I’ve just been filled with inspiration for parks again after reading the Welsh poet and wordsmith Dylan Thomas….

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Want to get children moving? Just let them play out!

Alice posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing on 24/03/2015

By Naomi Fuller I stood turning the skipping rope for ages at our last playing out session. Tall…

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Playing Out: A Public Health Perspective

Claire Lowman posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing on 06/11/2014

Claire Lowman is Public Health Service Lead for Bristol City Council and gives her perspective on the health…

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