Jun 20, 2012 | Literacy Outdoors
At the weekend I was facilitating my final workshop of the school year at the Aberdeen Early Years Conference. The theme was Going Out to Play with Fred the Ted – Creating On-going Dialogue with Children. It was a fitting end to a busy year, in that it was an...
Jun 9, 2012 | Personal & Holidays
In the summer of 2011, I had a trip of a lifetime. My husband kindly surprised me for my birthday with a trip to St Kilda. We were in the middle of a family holiday on North Uist which was the inspiration for this blog post. For those of you who don’t know, St...
May 26, 2012 | Maths Outdoors
The maths sticks continue to get well-used. Each time I bring them to a class I see something unique and creative demonstrated by children. One time I had the pleasure of working with a P4 (Year 3) class who have been working very hard on developing their mental maths...
May 12, 2012 | Maths Outdoors
Almost one year ago I blogged about a class that created fraction walls with wind-fallen sticks. This was very successful and really required a bit of organisation and thought by the P6 (Y5) children. Earlier this year I noticed that Muddy Faces was selling a maths...
May 2, 2012 | Art & Music Outdoors
One of my favourite training courses to run was Expressive Arts Outside. Once I arrived at a lovely school with a garden area. Very sadly the fence around this area had been vandalised quite significantly at the weekend and was in a sorry state. We did not have time...
