Feb 4, 2012 | Maths Outdoors, RME Outdoors
Now that the Chinese New Year has arrived, 2012 is officially the Year of the Dragon. This is extremely exciting and for an interesting maths challenge, one has to try making a fractal dragon. First all all your need a flat open space. My back garden was fine. And you...
Feb 1, 2012 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Nature Play & Learning
This is a long overdue guest post. Last September, Malin Blomster, who lives and works in the Stockholm area, in a suburb just south of the actual city, sent these photos and text. She was keen for the blogging world to see a typical early years establishment in...
Jan 28, 2012 | Literacy Outdoors
When I was 11 years old I remember struggling to understand the concept of a metaphor. There is a wonderful poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes which opens with three super metaphorical descriptions to set the scene… The wind was a torrent of darkness among the...
