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Play Friendly School Labels Awarded in Hungary
By Dora Halasz In the frame of the CAPS project, four of the Hungarian pilot schools gained the Play-friendly School Label. The schools...
CAPS Project Team
Oct 28, 20201 min read
ADDITIONAL EVENT IN AUSTRIA: “Places and ways of playing” – Workshop in July and August 2020
By Paul Schober, GeSoB For 40 children – GeSoB together with 8 pedagogues (and many parents involved) organized these workshops with the...
CAPS Project Team
Aug 28, 20202 min read
CAPS Quality Criteria & Possibilities for implementation within the school pt.2
By Paul Schober, GeSoB On 9 March 2020 we had our first School Staff Workshop and had the chance to discuss the CAPS outcomes with the...
CAPS Project Team
Aug 28, 20201 min read
CAPS Quality Criteria & Possibilities for implementation within the framework of schools
By Paul Schober, GeSoB On 27 February 2020 we invited policy makers, directors, special educators, leisure educators and teachers to St....
CAPS Project Team
Aug 28, 20201 min read
Workshop "Ways to a play-friendly school" in St. Pölten
By Paul Schober, GeSoB On 24 April 2018 the workshop " Ways to a play-friendly school " took place in the premises of the School „Schule...
CAPS Project Team
Aug 28, 20201 min read
Play Friendly Schools Kite Mark
In May 2019 we started to deliver a pilot to assist 8 Primary Schools within Gloucestershire to achieve the Play Friendly Schools Kite...
CAPS Project Team
Aug 26, 20204 min read
Locking down outside, opening up inside
Far from ideal, the schools had to deal with moving forward on the play-friendly route during the 2.5 month school closure in Hungary. We...
CAPS Project Team
Aug 13, 20202 min read
CAPS: From a School's Perspective
The Majthényi Adolf Primary School in Dvorany nad Žitavou was the institution that was open to becoming a pilot school for the CAPS...
CAPS Project Team
Aug 12, 20202 min read
Working Together in Slovakia
By Péter Urbán One of the foundations of free play is that it has enough space. In the Slovak pilot school, Majthényi Adolf Primary...
CAPS Project Team
Oct 31, 20191 min read
Workshop "Ways to a play-friendly school" in St. Pölten
By Paul Schober, GeSoB On 28 September 2019 the workshop " Ways to a play-friendly school " took place in the premises of the chamber of...
CAPS Project Team
Oct 24, 20191 min read
The Majthényi Adolf Alapiskola
Majthényi Adolf Primary School has introduced free-play time to its pupils in the academic year 2019/2020. It means after the 3rd class...
CAPS Project Team
Oct 1, 20191 min read
Adults playing and having fun!
Gábor Páll, Rogers Foundation, Hungary During a workshop in Petöfi Sándor Altalanos Iskola, a school in Janoshida, we had the most...
CAPS Project Team
Jul 12, 20191 min read
It made us think of the relationship we have with play time...
Gábor Páll, Rogers Foundation, Hungary We were running a training for teachers in a very rainy, dark day in Laborc school. Teachers were...
CAPS Project Team
Jul 9, 20191 min read
‘don’t get dirty’
Gábor Páll, Rogers Foundation, Hungary When we first entered the Laborc School, we heard some words that shocked us and showed us the...
CAPS Project Team
Jul 1, 20191 min read
A new pilot school in Hungary
Gábor Páll, Rogers Foundation, Hungary During the multiplier event in October, teachers were interested, it was not by force, they...
CAPS Project Team
Jun 26, 20191 min read
CAPS goes down under to New Zealand Aotearoa
CAPS UK team member Wendy Russell recently spent three weeks in New Zealand Aotearoa, talking with territorial authority officers,...
Wendy Russell
May 29, 20192 min read
Quality Criteria Announcement Meeting in Slovakia
Written by Voda Zsófia , TANDEM,n.o. 22nd of March was the chosen date for the next multiplier event to be held in our CAPS –...
CAPS Project Team
May 29, 20191 min read
CAPS and the Czech head teacher of the year 2019
The year 2017 was the beginning of the CAPS project and at the same time, it was the first year for Jiří Vymětal in the position of head...
CAPS Project Team
May 24, 20191 min read
CAPS – Country Piloting Process in Hungarian Schools
The beginning of 2019 The piloting process of this project started many months before thinking about the training curriculum. Because of...
CAPS Project Team
Apr 25, 20193 min read
Sprinkle liberally and mix up!
Written by: Sue Smith, Playworker and Trainer, Play Resource Co./PACT Birmingham, UK Take a ranch-style hotel, complete with real horses...
CAPS Project Team
Apr 16, 20192 min read
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