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Author Follett, Michael

Title Creating Excellence in Primary School Playtimes : How to Make 20% of the School Day 100% Better
Published London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (146 pages)
Contents Creating Excellence in Primary School Playtimes: How to make 20% of the school day 100% better by Michael Follett; Introduction ; PART I: Background, Theory and School Culture; 1. What Is Play and Why Is It Important?; 2. Where Has Play Gone and Why?; 3. Why Should Schools Improve Play?; 4. The Limitations of Existing Solutions; 5. What Works? ; 6. Leadership and the Culture of Play; 7. Managing Risk; 8. Values and Policy; 9. Supervision: From Policing to Playwork ; 10. Equality; Use it!: Site Access and All-Season Use ; PART II: The Environment of Play Design Theory
12. Creating a Landscape for Play in a School13. Social Space; 14. Journey ; 15. Affordance, Difference and Material Richness; 16. Change ; Conclusion; Notes; Index; Blank Page
Summary Helping schools to develop a long-term playtime strategy, this book shows how schools can overcome barriers to excellent play for child development and wellbeing. With proven examples that are workable within schools' playtime budgets, the strategies show how to tackle and improve upon common issues including behaviour, staffing and facilities
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Subject Play -- Great Britain
Education, Elementary -- Great Britain
School recess breaks -- Great Britain
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Education, Elementary
Play
School recess breaks
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781784503611
1784503614