Jun 9, 2015 | Whole School
Rob Bushby is UK Manager of the John Muir Award – the John Muir Trust’s environmental award scheme. In this detailed guest blog post, he takes in the view of the strategic landscape of Outdoor Learning in Scotland. How about this for a statement of intent...
May 30, 2015 | Early Years Outdoors, Gardening, Literacy Outdoors, Technologies
Recently I blogged about making seed packets from unwanted books. This is a brilliant concept in that it’s an informal approach to children continuing to interact with text in a way that is short, sweet and fun. When I posted this blog, Mark Paterson, the...
May 14, 2015 | Early Years Outdoors, Gardening, Nature Play & Learning
I have never been a big fan of the commercial flower presses. They are fiddly to use, a fixed shape and usually too small at that. Normally I just press flowers between by inserting them between kitchen roll and sticking them inside a big heavy book. This is fine at...
May 9, 2015 | Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces
In April I had the privilege of visiting in New Zealand. Although it was a whistle stop 6 days involving training one day and flying the next, I did pause to catch my breath in Christchurch. I met up with an old friend and children’s citizenship and...
Apr 25, 2015 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Early Years Outdoors
A dry creek is just what its name suggests. It’s a simulation of a stream which has dried up, leaving stones and other mainly (but not always) natural materials for children to use in their play. I’ve seen lots of wonderful examples over the years. They...
