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Playboard NI is an organisation that influences the improvement of play through different combinations; working in partnership to put play on the agenda, research, evaluation and raising awareness etc. Playboard believes that play leads to a healthy and happy childhood which is why they find it so important to develop play opportunities.

Playboard NI can help to enrich and extend play and learning opportunities as it provides loads of information on how important play is for children, explains how fundamental play is for a child's development and give parents and practitioners information on how to deal with the risks, how sometimes risks can be important for them to learn, how to provide children with the right space etc. It also helps other organisations to achieve play goals. Also, it gives examples of different resources that can be used to extend your child's play and learning such as low cost ideas, different term activities, free and found play etc.

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PlayBoard NI - The Lead Organisation In Play

PlayBoard strives to be an effective, innovative and responsive organisation, which brings evidence-based intelligence and best practice together to empower our members, children and young people, parents, communities and individuals, while influencing continuous improvement in the delivery of play services through a combination of:

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The Curiosity Approach is a approach to early childhood. it provides different information, services and inspiration on how you can impact a child's life in different ways. A parent or practitioner can purchase a monthly resource from this organisation, which provides them with inspiration to help contribute to their play and learning.

this organisation can help to enrich and excel a child's learning and play as they provide their inspirational booklet, mini courses are available to help you teach your child, provide events across the UK and provide tips on the website on how you can help them to learn through play.

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Lyndsey Hellyn & Stephanie Bennett are the co-founders of The Curiosity Approach. With over 50 years teaching and leadership experience in Early Childhood, we are the Directors of 6 nurseries across the Midlands, all based on The Curiosity Approach ethos. With over 120 employees working and serving 500+ children and their families.

We recently featured on the BBC as the "nursery with no toys" and have been voted Top 10 Day Nursery in the West Midlands on daynurseries.co.uk. We have multiple Ofsted rated "outstanding" sites.

We are huge advocates of young children and are dedicated to raising standards of Early Years provisions. Motivating educators to be passionate and curious professionals, who in turn provide wonderous opportunities for children.

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CCEA is the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments. it is responsible for the department of education. This curriculum covers ages 0-12, it focuses on a child's needs, knowledge, understanding and skills. It aims to help all children reach their full potential and learn to make the right decisions throughout their lives.

The CCEA helps to enrich and extend children's play and learning opportunities by providing teachers with different approaches to give pupils through a number of different experiences. Key stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all provided with different overviews as they are different ages. It also gives practitioners examples of how they can change their teaching to suit every child, how all children learn at different paces and ways to work around this.

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the Educational App Store finds apps that will test each different age group, they understand that it can be hard to find educational apps. It provides a range of games from different topics like maths, English, art etc. They list a variety of different games for all age groups and games for a certain age range as well. It extends their learning through play making it enjoyable for them and children will be more interested.

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We certify and recommend the best education apps, so that teachers, parents and students can feel confident in mobile learning in the classroom and at home.

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Play matters understand that children have the urge to play from a very young age. They believe that play is an important part of a child's life as it improves their overall health and development. They find 'loose parts' a good form of play as they can use things that aren't played with in a certain way and there are no rules. This allows children to use their imagination and think of different ways to use different objects around the house. This will extend their learning as they will get to chose their own objects and play with them in any way they want to. different objects they can use are bubble wrap, pots and pans, old clothes and fabric etc.

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Unit 7 - 3.7 achieved. Evidence of investigation of support materials to inform the play environment. N.Millar 09/01/24