PARS courses for all

Our PARS Playwork Practice (PPP) programmes teach adults who work with children how to use the PARS model of playwork practice to free up time and space for children to be children.


Four levels of PARS training to suit your needs - wherever you work with children in their leisure time!

Plus our unique PARS Continuous Professional Development programme to keep us all learning and connecting. Many of our CPD events are open to practitioners and academics who have not done PARS training.

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From entry level to expert!

Four levels of

PARS Playwork Practice (PPP)

PPP1

Introducing
PARS

Our non-assessed, non-accredited introduction to PARS theory and practice.
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PPP2

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beginner

Begin to use parts of the PARS model to describe and develop your playwork practice

PPP3

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advanced practitioner

Use the PARS model to articulate and develop your playwork practice

PPP4

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EXPERT

Use the PARS model to articulate, develop and evaluate your playwork practice

INTRODUCing PARS - non assessed

PPP1

Learn how PARS training helps adults to free up time and space for children to be children - discover how PARS playwork practitioners think and why!

Find out whether PARS playwork is for you and learn more about how to join our internationally accredited courses.

PPP1 is an ideal introduction for anybody who wants to find out more about PARS playwork practice before committing to a longer assessed course.

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PARS bEGINNERS - accredited by ncfe

PPP2

Find out how the PARS model works and start to use parts of it in your setting.

This was a different way to look at how I observe and react to play. It has added another string to my bow when discussing play with other educators.
Adele Orangi, New Zealand
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PARS ADVANCED PRACTITIONER - ACCREDITED BY NCFE

PPP3

PPP3 is our advanced practitioner programme. Learn how to use the PARS theories, methods and techniques to put PARS playwork practice into practice in your setting.

In this great journey, I found challenges that reshaped my perspective, and gained valuable knowledge and skills that will enhance my interactions with children in both my professional and personal endeavours.

Sarah Aweida - Learning Coordinator at Dadu Children Museum in Qatar

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PARS EXPERT - ACCREDITED BY NCFE

PPP4

PPP4 is our highest level PARS qualification. It will enable you to articulate, develop and evaluate your PARS playwork practice and the whole of the PARS model itself.

I am grateful to have taken part in this training. I have learn a new perspective that resonates really well with my own values; and this new information is continuing to challenge my own practice.

Isabelle Zastavnikovic, Australia

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PARS Continuous Professional Development

open to all

PARS Conference

Academics and practitioners from any discipline are very welcome to join us for our fourth international PARS Conference on 18th October 2025!

open to all

Book
Club

PARS Book Club is for anybody who wants to develop their knowledge of literature about children and childhood. Practitioners and academics from any background are welcome to join Book Club!

open to all

PCOM Workshop

Find out how to use Dr Pete King's Play Cycle Observation Method in this two part workshop. Open to non-PARS practitioners. 

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Reflexions

Free quarterly meetings just for PARS practitioners led by Dr Shelly Newstead.