Childcare Heroes in Scotland

Play Pedagogy Officer @Play Scotland. Championing children’s right to play in Scotland, inspiring & supporting educators to embrace play-based learning in schools. MEd student, bookworm, and cake lover. ❤️ All views my own! 🙈🙉🙊

Programme lead BA Childhood Practice, UofGlasgow. PGR- childcare policy. Former @scotgov. High quality leadership practice & workforce development. Linking policy & practice.

Retired Education Consultant: Outdoor Learning & Play. Former HT. Author: Dirty Teaching, Messy Maths. Blogger: See linktr.ee/creativestar. Churchill Fellow. D.Ed. (Hon) from @qmuniversity.bsky.social. Living with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Educational Psychologist - early years, child trauma & adversity, infant mental health, equalities & children’s rights; deputy chair BPS Practice Board

ADHD brain interested in the outdoors, early childhood. Rogue teacher. Education consultant and trainer. Vice chair, Upstart Scotland. Founder, Mucky Boots Education.

Professor of Education Strathclyde Institute of Education Professional learning, primary/EY, democratic ed, voice, visual methods & pedagogies for thinking. #StrathSTL #StrathEdD #StrathEduPGR

Academic and visual artist; early childhood education; Mosaic approach; Slow pedagogies; Orkney; Norway. Author: Slow knowledge and the unhurried child (2023) www.alisonclark.co.uk Blog: Slow knowledge https://alisonclarkinthemaking.wordpress.com

Campaigned for a further year of nursery funding for ALL children deferring primary one start in Scotland who need more time. https://givethemtime.org/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGoFVpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcJHQ0QqsKZm6ImiMcI_6WigpKyYqFKWBXzBYO3GoMcp-N8IUPJbMSOo2g_aem_kfTZ

Mum & Grandma to many! Head at Wester Coates Nursery School, where, whatever the weather we spend more time outdoors than in. Passionate believer in the power of play to support development & learning. Staunch upholder of Froebelian principles. MSc Froebel

Poppies is a rural nursery who are proud to be guiding and meeting young children’s needs using a Froebelian approach . We love the natural environment and spend long periods of time in the outdoors.