Our activity overview for 2021-22
This is the text from Play Learning Life's 'social impact' Annual Report - a document all social enterprises are required to write and...
Free and Found fabulousness in Lancashire!
If you're in or around Lancashire, please join me on Friday 24th or Saturday 25th at a half day CPD session exploring the joy and rich...
A New Vision for Outdoors
We are hugely excited to announce the latest Play Learning Life collaboration with Nursery World magazine - a series of 3 online training...
Pappus update
The PLL team has been working throughout lockdown on writing resources for the PAPPUS Erasmus+ project. It has been a testing time for...
5 ideas for mark-making outdoors
Ideas for physically active mark-making outdoors
Get stuck in, outdoors!
Playful activity ideas using sticks - if you only have an hour outdoors with your children, make the most of it!
Pappus: the lockdown transnational meeting
Meeting our Erasmus+ partners, virtually, to discuss ways to help schools introduce plants into learning and play.
Outdoors during lockdown?
Five ways to Explore your Neighbourhood - first published in Nursery World magazine.
Thank you, Postcode Lottery players!
A huge "thank you” to players of the People's Postcode Lottery from all of us at Play Learning Life, as we reach the end of our project...
Seeds of change... Erasmus +
The PAPPUS project will disperse seeds of change in the lives of young people, using the natural world, botany and horticulture, in a playfu
Outdoor overhaul - progress!
Find out what we're up to at Oliver Thomas Nursery School - outdoor learning and play are on the agenda!
Hurrah! Outdoor Classroom Day!
Springtime's Outdoor Classroom Day is almost upon us - the twice-yearly campaign now has over 3.5m children participating, all around the...
Early Years Spring Summit 2019
Monday 29th April marks day one of Kathy Brodie's 'Early Years Spring Summit'. Each spring, Kathy rounds up a range of early years...
Are you the Mad March Teacher?
Making the most of any last minute end-of-year budget underspends (ha!).
How carpet-slippers can improve risk-taking...
Could footwear transform outdoor play in our early years settings? Lessons from Japanese kindergartens.
