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Log Piles – Creating a Flourishing Wildlife Community

May 21, 2014 | Early Years Outdoors, Gardening, Science Outdoors

In recent years the old-fashioned log pile has been superceded by the hip and trendy mini beast hotels in school grounds. Whilst these are a lovely form of recycling and repurposing of various materials this post is a plea to all schools to provide create lots of log...

Den Building

Sep 18, 2013 | Community Involvement, Play Resources, Technologies

What’s your idea of a den? I worked largely in tarmac playgrounds and school grounds which often had few trees suitable for den building. The dens I saw children build tended to be reliant on boxes, lattice tunnels and attached to fences or a line of rope tied...

Wood Logs and Lumps in Schools

Jun 8, 2013 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Play Resources

In recent years moveable wooden disks, logs and planks have begun to make an appearance in more and more school grounds that I visit. If you look closely at the photos from the Inverallochy update, you can see the place is littered with wooden bits and pieces. They...