{"id":10,"date":"2023-01-18T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T12:42:21","slug":"why-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/why-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"container \" style=\"text-align: center\">Play promotes creativity, wonder, risk taking, collaboration, interpretation, and reinterpretation. Its meaning is infinite, and its importance cannot and must not be ignored. Play naturally creates high level engagement in learning which leads to high level attainment. Play and playfulness enable the \u2018soft skills\u2019 like respect, thoughtfulness, kindness, application, self-drive and creativity to develop which will define our culture through the years. Play creates the conditions for children to test the world, to make sense of it, to grow the skills needed to communicate, to negotiate and express their inner selves.<\/h2>\n<p id=\"container_jeAif3EXYO6\" style=\"text-align: center\" role=\"heading\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Explore the menu for National and Local messages about play, core readings and links to support your exploration of &#8216;why play?&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/why-play\/why-play-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Why Play Logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo.png\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-1254\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/play\/uploads\/sites\/13929\/2024\/12\/06124133\/Why-Play-Logo-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play promotes creativity, wonder, risk taking, collaboration, interpretation, and reinterpretation. Its meaning is infinite, and its importance cannot and must not be ignored. Play naturally creates high level engagement in learning which leads to high level attainment. Play and playfulness enable the \u2018soft skills\u2019 like respect, thoughtfulness, kindness, application, self-drive and creativity to develop which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/why-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Play?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3257,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/play\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}