PARS courses for all


Our PARS Playwork Practice (PPP) programmes teach anybody who works with children how to use the PARS model of playwork practice.


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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Find your PARS level!

Four levels of PARS training to suit your needs

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PPP1 

INTRODUCING PARS

Our four hour introduction to PARS theory and practice.

PPP2

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PARS BEGINNERS 

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

PPP3

PARS ADVANCED PRACTITIONER

Use the PARS model to describe and develop your playwork practice

PPP4

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PARS EXPERT

Use the PARS model to articulate, develop and evaluate your playwork practice
INTRODUCTION TO PARS - non assessed

PPP1

Learn how PARS playwork practitioners think and why! Find out whether PARS playwork is for you. Ideal for anybody who wants to find out about PARS without committing to a longer assessed course.
We are currently developing our PPP1 programme as an 'on-demand' course - please contact us for more details.
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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. 

All these PPP2 courses are online and international - open to anyone working with children in their leisure time.

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If you would prefer a PPP2 course delivered by a local trainer, take a look at what's available at the moment...

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.
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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.
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PARS CPD

PARS Conference

Academics and practitioners from any discipline are very welcome to join us for our fourth international PARS Conference on 19th October 2024!
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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!


PARS CPD

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. Next PCOM workshop starts 31st October.
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PARS CPD

Reflexions

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