Playwork Training: Conwy Play Development Training Programme 2024-2025
All training is run by qualified and experienced playwork trainers. All the training is fun and playful and trainers will do everything they can to meet all learners' needs. Please tell us how we can make the training work best for you when you book.
To enquire about courses or book your space please contact leisuredevelopment@conwy.gov.uk.
Level 2 Award in Playwork Practice
- Location: Community Hub, Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay
- Date: this training is run several times throughout the year, please email leisuredevelopment@conwy.gov.uk for more information
The L2APP is a great introductory course to Playwork, with a good mixture of both practical and theory based information.
This award is the entry level qualification for progression onto the Agored Cymru Level 2 Certificate, Playwork: Principles into Practice.
Practical playwork
- Location: Leisure Development Hub, Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay
- Date: 4 September 2024, 9:30am to 2:30pm
Join us as we explore how to create a richer play environment. We’ll do this by thinking more deeply about the playwork curriculum and how we can use it as a guide to think about playful ideas and more importantly how they can be applied practically to further enhance any play space.
This will involve lots of sharing of ideas and more importantly, rolling our sleeves up, having a go, doing stuff, making things and generally having fun in an informative and supportive session of skill sharing.
Fires, dens and ropes
- Location: Leisure Development Hub, Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay
- Date: 11 September 2024, 10am to 2pm
This course will allow learners to consider practical ways to incorporate the natural/outdoor environment in children’s play.
We will look at simple practical skills that support building structures in the outdoor environment including rope courses, tightropes, tree swings and den building. We will also explore ways of incorporating fire both for cooking and exploration - this will include leaners cooking on the fire.
We will explore ways to support older children using tools and wood to help them build structures and their own play space. Finally we will discuss how to balance the risks and benefits of these types of play opportunities in order to provide children with opportunities for self-directed play.
This course will be of a practical nature and will be delivered outdoors - you will be expected to play whatever the weather!
Behaviour and play
- Location: Leisure Development Hub, Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay
- Date: 18 September 2024, 6pm to 9pm
This session will explore behaviour that we may find challenging and reframe it through the lens of a playwork approach.
We will explore both theoretical and practical applications and consider how our intervention styles and levels can extend and enhance children and young peoples play, whilst also helping practitioners to feel more confident in dealing with behaviour that they may find challenging.
Thinking about risk in play
- Location: Leisure Development Hub, Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay
- Date: 25 September 2024, 6pm to 9pm
The session will explore how we as practitioners can provide a reasonable degree of risk and challenge at their settings by using a playwork approach. It will explore some key legislation and guidance as well as some of the underpinning theories that inform our practice and help us to develop more child-centred provision.
It will cover dynamic risk assessment and the use of risk-benefit assessments as well as practical examples about how to consider striking the right balance, whilst adhering to the playwork principles.
Play for all
- Location: Leisure Development Hub, Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay
- Date: 9 October 2024, 6pm to 9pm
All children and young people need to play. If you work with them you will undoubtedly experience their common play behaviours regardless of your role or setting.
Join us as we explore how a playwork approach can complement youth work and vice versa. We will consider how we can enhance the play offer in youth settings and also better support young people with issues that may emerge in their lives.
Playful Conwy
- Location: Training Suite, Coed Pella, Conway Road, Colwyn Bay
- Date: 16 October 2024, 12:30pm to 2:40pm
This workshop is aimed at town and community and county councillors, housing associations, Conwy Planning and Environment Roads and Facilities staff, and any one else whose job role impacts on community spaces.
The workshop will explore ideas around what is a playful community and how can they be created using design, spaces and attitudes.
Enhancing spaces for play
- Location: Leisure Development Hub, Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay
- Date: 6 November 2024, 1pm to 4pm
This course will enable learners to enhance their current play environment through play auditing and self assessment.
The course will explore the importance of the playwork curriculum and provide ideas and suggestions of how to provide exciting,varied and rich spaces for children and young people to play.
Don’t see what you want? We want to give the play sector and everyone working with children and young people what they want, so if you have a training need in play or playwork that we don’t cover here let us know and we will do our best to cater for you.