Welcome to Play Highland

'Play Matters 2012 - 2015 For Highland's Children Play Strategy' was adopted by the Joint Committee for Children & Young People in March 2012.

The Desired Outcomes are:

Involvement

Children and other stakeholders are meaningfully involved in the decision making and planning around play.

Communication

Highland is actively promoted as a play friendly place, where adults give value to and understand the benefit to children of freely chosen challenging play.

Access

Residential areas across Highland are play-friendly, providing access to a variety of play experiences, including natural and informal spaces, to involve and include the diversity of children and young people represented in the community.

Child Centred Play

Children are supported to access opportunities for freely chosen play (reflecting their own views and aspirations), which may be challenging and or creative.

Play Matters because it is fundamental to our children's wellbeing and development. It contributes to the outcomes of Getting it Right for Every Child and For Highland's Children, that children are Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included. It contributes to the development of the Curriculum for Excellence capacities that children should develop in to Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Effective Contributors and Responsible Citizens. Therefore, Play Matters to our communities and our schools.

Play Highland is a hub for sharing good practice, advertising events and providing other information about play. Any person interested in the promotion of Play Matters can sign up as a member (link to member page) and thereby receive email updates about events and training in Highland. 

Play Highland also provides a forum to evaluate how well Play Matters is delivering the desired outcomes. 

Using this website

The site has examples of good practice as well as links to research that has been carried out on the benefits of play and links to other useful websites and tools.

 

 

 

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