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Outdoor Childcare Services in Scotland: Nurseries, Childminders and Out-of-School Clubs

Jun 23, 2021 | Early Years Outdoors, Nature Play & Learning

I receive a lot of queries about outdoor nurseries, out-of-school clubs, forest kindergartens and nature kindergartens in Scotland. This post lists the ones I am aware of, but please, if you know of others, then please do get in touch and tell me more. One...

The Scottish Skogsmulle Sessions

Aug 25, 2012 | Early Years Outdoors, Nature Play & Learning

Last year, after attending the Skogsmulle International Training Course in Sweden, I thought it would be prudent to organise some sessions to help me learn more about the approach. Very kindly a P1 class were up for the experiment so we went out for six sessions, just...

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...

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...