{"id":5875,"date":"2017-08-30T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2017-08-30T21:17:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:17:27","slug":"teachers-learn-how-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/08\/30\/teachers-learn-how-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Learn How to Play!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their professional development, the Primary 1 teachers along with Mrs Innes, the acting depute in the nursery, and I went on a course about the importance of play in the early years.<\/p>\n<p>Our tutor taught us how we could enhance our storytelling with the use of string! Yes, string! It was a wee bit like the old fashioned cat&#8217;s cradle games. We managed to make a witch&#8217;s broomstick as well an Eiffel Tower among other things. Mrs Innes gave me support and help as I was having a wee bit of difficulty with my Eiffel Tower. On a more serious note, and apart from the fun side of things, the staff learned lots about the importance of play in the development of children. Just to embarrass a few members of staff I include some photographs of them on their course!<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-5875-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/IMG_2567-e1504127632734.jpg?fit=480%2C640\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5876&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_2567&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Our tutor, Dr Henderson, demonstrates her flying broomstick.,&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/IMG_2568-e1504127612240.jpg?fit=480%2C640\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5877&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_2568&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mrs Jamieson and Mrs Innes get all tied up with their string.&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/IMG_2570-e1504127577322.jpg?fit=480%2C640\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5879&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_2570&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mrs Innes and Miss Arnott are practising their Eiffel Tower skills.&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\\\/blogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/IMG_2569-e1504127596722.jpg?fit=480%2C640\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5878&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_2569&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Miss Arnott with a great Eiffel Tower made from string!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their professional development, the Primary 1 teachers along with Mrs Innes, the acting depute in the nursery,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":5879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2570-e1504127577322.jpg?fit=480%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JM5L-1wL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}