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Snug, Sutcliffe Play’s loose parts play equipment has made the journey across the Atlantic to be part of the Chicago Children’s Museum’s (CCM) newest exhibit, Move which opened February 12 and ran through to May 16, 2010. CCM’s purchase of the Snug kit is the first in the USA. Snug has already proved successful in Eureka, a UK children’s museum and now Chicago Children’s Museum is using the kit as part of their mission to create a community


Snug in the Windy City


where play and learning connect. The museum's primary audience is children from birth to age 10 and their families, and school and community groups that support and influence children's growth and development. A desire


to increase


opportunities for children’s physical activity in the museum led to the introduction of the Move exhibit. Using Snug, Move was designed to inspire movement, physical activity and teamwork and develop children’s fine and gross motor activity, whilst encouraging dramatic play and language skills.


Snug the revolutionary concept in loose parts play, transforms areas into dynamic and creative playscapes,


Racecourse play area grand opening


inspiring children to explore, create, discover and learn, making it the perfect instrument to complement the Move exhibit. Snug was created to change established patterns of behaviour by engaging children’s imaginations and giving them the satisfaction of being able to change their surroundings. It allows children to develop new ways of playing, encourages creativity and social interaction.


Louise Belmont Skinner,


Vice President of Exhibits for the Chicago Children’s Museum said, “The Move exhibit using Snug is proving to be a big success with our visitors. “We chose Snug after our research sessions indicated that the need for an interactive, inclusive and educational exhibit within the museum, Snug clearly fit the bill.”


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Play England key to ensuring impact of investment


An in-depth evaluation conducted by NCB found that since Play England’s launch in 2006, Play England has exceeded expectations and has had a major role in the big advances in play policy, practice and delivery over this period.


The evaluation concludes that, going forward, a substantial national role for Play England is 'key to building upon current momentum and ensuring the longer-term impact of the recent policy initiatives and investment in children's play.'


A huge number of very exciting children were wowed by the new £85,000 adventure play space on Northampton’s Racecourse that officially opened on Friday, 14 May. The new Playbuilder equipment and landscaping has dramatically changed the large open space, now giving young people of the Mounts, Semilong and Abington communities and beyond, bigger and more


exciting


apparatus to play on. The Friends of Northampton Racecourse, Northampton Borough Council and a number of other agencies have been working in partnership


for 5 years to deliver this landmark urban park scheme. Equipment, constructed over the past four months by Miracle Design and Play Ltd, includes a zip wire, climbing frame complex, a five-person buddy swing, a giant slide and a 6 metre pyramid climbing net-Northamptonshire’s largest! The landscaping and natural play space area has been specially designed to encourage children to interact , whilst at the same time it blends into the geography of the land.


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