1st Edition
Unlocking Playground Potential Reducing Conflict and Maximising the Positives of Unstructured Time in Schools
About the Author
About the Contributor
Preface
Chapter 1: Why Are Playtimes, Breaktimes and Lunchtimes Important?
Chapter 2: Core Ideas Emerging from the Research
Chapter 3: How to Assess Your School's Break Times: Stress, Behaviour and Transitions
Chapter 4: Playground Design
Chapter 5: Managing Transitions
Chapter 6: Recognition and Support for Midday and Lunchtime Supervisors in Creating Harmonious Break Times
Chapter 7: Children and Young People at Particular Risk of Poor Experiences During Play Time
Chapter 8: Designing a Project for Your School: Networks, Collaborations and Frameworks
Downloadable Resource: Framework for Thinking About Playgrounds and Breaktimes
Downloadable Practical Resources
Index
Biography
Amelia Roberts is an Associate Professor at UCL and Head of Department (Psychology and Human Development), formerly Deputy Director of UCL Centre for Inclusive Education Vice Dean (Enterprise) at the Institute of Education. Her research focuses on the relationship between research and schools, including how schools translate their knowledge and experience back into the research. Amelia has developed a number of inclusion and wellbeing-focused university-school partnership programmes and works internationally, including a UNICEF-funded Inclusive Classrooms project in Oman. She has also worked with the DfE on projects related to special educational needs, managed a centre for adults with disabilities in Hong Kong and has experience as a primary school TA and in an on-site Alternative Provision in a South London secondary school.
