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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...

Let’s Get Writing Outside

Aug 12, 2015 | Early Years Outdoors, Literacy Outdoors

Writing outside is becoming increasingly popular in many primary and secondary schools as a method of engaging children and providing activities and stimuli which cannot be found indoors. The multi-sensory nature of much outdoor learning helps children to retain ideas...

Learning on your Doorstep – Ideas for Developing Writing Outdoors

Oct 17, 2012 | Literacy Outdoors

It has been a literacy-loaded term and so I thought it would be good to share with your some of the ideas from one primary writing course and news about a relevant book that’s just been published. Working in groups, the participants were asked to look at ways of...

Outdoor Literacy Activity: Sticky Letters

Nov 19, 2011 | Literacy Outdoors

This term I have been asked to undertake literacy activities with one class. This has provided an ideal opportunity to work on lots of ways of doing this outside. I’ve blogged about creating letters from natural materials previously. However, we’re going...