Feb 29, 2012 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Play Resources, RME Outdoors
Children love mazes. Whenever I undertook consultations with children about what they like to do, the idea of having a maze in the school grounds really appealed to them. One school I worked with ran a competition for a maze mural, and the children created this...
Feb 25, 2012 | Early Years Outdoors, Nature Play & Learning
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been involved in a Forest Kindergarten Pilot training course during the past week. This involved a visit to St Paul’s Nursery in South Lanarkshire to see a Forest Kindergarten session in action. It was quite a...
Feb 22, 2012 | Early Years Outdoors, Nature Play & Learning
These past three days I’ve had the privilege of working with Karen Boyd, Central Scotland Education Adviser for Forestry Commission Scotland. We’ve been running a course for Early Years practitioners about developing regular visits to woodland and other...
Feb 18, 2012 | Literacy Outdoors
Generally speaking, I’m not one for commercially bought alphabet resources. When I first decided to get into learning and play outside, I bought a set of alphabet tiles which I’ve rarely used. I’ve other bits and pieces too which tend to remain...
Feb 12, 2012 | Maths Outdoors
There are some wonderful maths activities which naturally lend themselves to outdoor work. This past year I’ve been messing about with fractals and thought I might as well blog about this… A fractal is a never-ending pattern that repeats itself at...
