Summer Holiday Club
The BIA Summer Holiday Club runs throughout the summer and has a full schedule of enjoyable, play based activities featuring outdoor learning, exploration, creative activities and social experiences. It is a non-academic summer programme, but our reasons for doing it are still very educational. Play is important for all ages of children, whether toddlers or teenagers, and good quality play helps them to develop socially, creatively, emotionally and physically. This in turn supports success in school and in life.

See our Summer Holiday Club schedule below and to the right. 

Read research about the importance of play: 
 

• The Importance of Play – Kenneth R. Ginsburg. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/1/182
  
  
• The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Development   www.msuextension.org/health/documents/MT201003HR.pdf  
  
  
• Importance of play for teenagers:  http://time.com/3726098/learning-through-play-teenagers-education/
  
  
• Why is play important? Social, physical, emotional and creative development. www.education.com/reference/article/importance-play--social-emotional/  
  
  
• The Importance of Play – Dr David Whitebread  www.importanceofplay.eu/IMG/pdf/dr_david_whitebread_-_the_importance_of_play.pdf  
  
  
• The importance of outdoor play for healthy development:  www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444866416301234                                                                                                                                 
• Play in children’s health and wellbeing: http://www.ornes.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Play-in-children-s-development-health-and-well-being-feb-2012.pdf  
  
  
• National Association for the Education of Young Children – articles about play & learning www.naeyc.org/play
  
  
• The United Nations, play is a human right - see Article 31 www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx

BIA Summer Holiday Club 2018. Please contact us for further information, or to sign up for one or more weeks.