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A Journey to the Heart of Place

Jun 30, 2012 | Personal & Holidays, Social Subjects Outdoors

Two years ago I blogged about the Drove Roads Journey which I had planned to undertake. Sadly, owing to unforeseen circumstances the event was postponed. And it’s now happening next week! The purpose of the “mobile conference” is nicely phrased on...

Communities and Gardening

Jun 26, 2012 | Community Involvement, Gardening

Photo copyright GABATThere are many ways of building communities. Often it’s small groups of committed people who have an idea, a vision, a dream that they quietly set about putting into practice. Through doing this, social capital is created and the wider...

Literacy Trails in Outdoor Spaces

Jun 23, 2012 | Literacy Outdoors

Trails are interesting things. Children like them and they are often associated with taking learning outdoors. Many teachers experience them the hard way. We set up a trail that takes a couple of hours to put together the night before and half an hour to set up in the...

Creating On-Going Dialogue and Change with Children

Jun 20, 2012 | Literacy Outdoors

At the weekend I was facilitating my final workshop of the school year at the Aberdeen Early Years Conference. The theme was Going Out to Play with Fred the Ted – Creating On-going Dialogue with Children. It was a fitting end to a busy year, in that it was an...

St Kilda – A Different Place

Jun 9, 2012 | Personal & Holidays

In the summer of 2011, I had a trip of a lifetime. My husband kindly surprised me for my birthday with a trip to St Kilda. We were in the middle of a family holiday on North Uist which was the inspiration for this blog post. For those of you who don’t know, St...