Dec 5, 2015 | Whole School
When I ask children and young people what they like about learning outdoors, many cite “space and freedom” as a reason. It is a consistent theme across the ages and is also echoed by teachers. Every teacher knows the challenges of having to teach...
Nov 14, 2015 | Art & Music Outdoors, Early Years Outdoors, Social Subjects Outdoors
I find that holidays and visits to different places provide inspiration for flexible and open-ended outdoor activities with children. Andrea Stevenson demonstrates this effectively in this post where her daughter was inspired to create her own chalk figure after...
Nov 1, 2015 | Early Years Outdoors, Science Outdoors
Today’s post is written by Andrea Stevenson – a Canadian teacher who is living in Aberdeen and makes a point of getting out and about with her children. After reading her private family blog, I felt I needed to make use of her skills… 🙂 but please do...
Oct 19, 2015 | Art & Music Outdoors
There is nothing like a bit of bright textile to decorate an outdoor space. At Inverallochy School one of the more recent projects is to allow children to yarn bomb the school grounds. Any post runs a risk of being engulfed in colourful threads. As you can see...
Oct 10, 2015 | Whole School
One of the strengths of learning outdoors is that educators and children have really good opportunities to make connections between the work they are undertaking and what is happening in society. With Learning for Sustainability a core part of the GTCS teaching...
