Welcome!

Welcome to The Playtime! Project - for everybody who wants to put play back into the school playground!

The Playtime! Project was set up by Common Threads as a result of our extensive work in introducing playwork practice to lunchtime supervisors as a way of increasing the amount of play that takes place on school playgrounds. We have worked with primary schools across England and this work has been featured in the documentary 'Lost Adventures of Childhood' (shown in the UK on Teacher's TV and regularly aired on networks across Australia, Canada, America and Europe), which has inspired several international projects. We have also worked with many local authorities to train and support local support workers in introducing The Playtime! Project in their schools.

Please use the buttons above to find out more about what the Playtime! Project is all about and how and why we do it, and use the buttons on the left-hand side of this page to see how you can use the experience and expertise we've developed to help you to improve school playtime in your area.

And if you can't find what you're looking for - or have other ideas about how we can help - then please contact us - we always like new ideas and challenges!

More about the project...

The Playtime! Project has been featured in several magazines. Firstly, in the Autumn 2009 edition of Headteacher Update under the article title 'Playwork in the Playground'.

We are also regular contributors to Learning Support magazine with articles in ten editions starting with Issue 26 Autumn 1 2009.

Conference keynote speeches and workshops at; The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) 2011, National Union of Teachers (NUT) National Education Conference 2007 and International Council for Children's Play (ICCP) World Play Conference 2007.