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Love Outdoors! An Outdoor Literacy Activity

Feb 1, 2023 | Literacy Outdoors

Valentine’s Day provides ample opportunities to get outside. This blog post shares some literacy-based ideas for middle and upper primary school-aged children that I did with workshop participants one February in-set day. The first task was to make some green...

Valentine’s Day: Love Your Grounds & Green Your Heart

Jan 31, 2023 | Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces

This is an incredibly simply activity to kickstart a whole school approach to developing your school grounds or simply for one class to think about their outdoor space. It also makes a refreshing, purposeful addition to other Valentine’s Day happenings. 1....

A Red Rose Hunt for Valentine’s Day

Jan 25, 2023 | Literacy Outdoors, Social Subjects Outdoors

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching and Burn’s night recently passed, many teachers rather cleverly merge the two by choosing Robert Burn’s poem, A Red Red Rose as a focus for a lesson. Rabbie Burns, like many poets and writers took inspiration...

Love Locks and School Leaver Locks

Oct 7, 2015 | Community Involvement, RME Outdoors, Social Subjects Outdoors

In 2014 I posted about the love locks I came across in Vilnius. I’ve kept this post much as it is and have left it down below. Not long afterwards, whilst working at St James Primary School in Caerphilly, I discovered a lovely twist on this tradition,...