News

Below are vital snippets from around our sector - information as and when we get it - check here first! If you have some news which you feel would be helpful to colleagues then please do contact us.

New Year Resource Pack - Special Offer

We have put together a selection of eight 'must have' resources for your setting, all at the unbelievable price of just £12 (which even includes postage and packing!). But hurry - this is a stock clearance and we only have a few copies of some of them left. We'll be deleting most of these publications from our catalogue at the end of March - once they're gone, they're gone! Click here for more details.

The Playtime! Project Training Programme 2012

The Playtime! Project has developed low-cost, sustainable ways of enabling schools to put play back into playtime by supporting new ways of working and finding better ways of using existing resources within the school. We are running a programme of training courses which started last November for lunchtime supervisors. Schools can book places on these courses which are being held across the country for a small fee - please click here for more details. You can also watch video clips on our YouTube channel here.

Essential Skills for Managers of Child-Centred Settings

The revised fully updated second edition has just been published. This resource looks at how you can develop the key leadership skills needed to manage people to achieve excellent settings for children. For full details click here. We have also added some videos to our new YouTube Channel which illustrate some of the topics covered in the book.

CPIS factsheet on the benefits of playtime

The Children's Play Information Service has published a factsheet on 'The Benefits of Playtime', which looks at the research on what children get out of playtimes when they are able to play freely. The factsheet can be downloaded for free - click here.

Twitter!

For 16 years now Shelly has been 'twittering' around the office and so frankly the rest of us are indebted to those nice people at Twitter for creating something that means she can think random thoughts out loud without disturbing the rest of us...! Shelly 'tweets' about her research work, Common Threads happenings and wider issues on working in children's play, so if you'd like to keep up to date in this way please visit: W: www.twitter.com/shelnews.