Our Story

About The Learn From Play Team

Rachel McCann

LEARN FROM PLAY FOUNDER & EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CREATOR
B.TEACH, B.ED (HONS), M.ED (SPECIAL ED), M.ED (TL)

Rachel lives in NSW Australia and has been teaching for over 20 years. She has spent many years in special education and as a Teacher Librarian in Australia and the UK. From this she knows the challenges of engaging a wide range of students and their individual needs. While Rachel currently works full time as a Teacher Librarian but her passion has always been to read and write books and create resources that connect with fellow educators around the world.

Paddy McCann

LEARN FROM PLAY CO-FOUNDER & STORY AUTHOR
B.Creative Industries, Dip. Screen & Media

Paddy is a co-founder of Learn From Play and the genius behind any of the videos on the site. He currently works in videography and marketing but spent time as an Educational Officer and has taught thousands of students over his 20 year educational career. He is the author of a number of the original books on Learn From Play and as soon as he finds the time he will be writing another one to add to our collection.

Mission

The overarching mission for Learn From Play is to make teaching enjoyable and learning fun.

This site is an amalgamation of a number of other teaching resource sites. It combines Math ‘N’ Movement and Bloomsmath to offer a holistic approach to Math education that is enriching and also physical. It also provides teachers and teacher librarians with a one stop site for all their literacy needs for teaching students about the latest short stories and novels for young readers.

You will also find inspirational and educational posters, games, challenges and some entire units of work to help you in your classroom.

Vision

To make teaching easy and learning fun!
To allow every student to learn at the optimum level.
To create a site for teachers and teacher librarian’s that has unique book resources that are fun for students and easy for teachers.