Oct 27, 2016 | Early Years Outdoors, Gardening, Health & Wellbeing
Whilst in Hong Kong, I stayed at the Ark Eden Project. Being an environmental organisation, the focus is on living lightly. Outside the compost toilet, the hand washing facilities consisted of a small bowl of soapberries. These were used in place of soap. It reminded...
Oct 15, 2016 | Art & Music Outdoors, Early Years Outdoors, Maths Outdoors
One activity that is consistently popular with children and adults is masking tape art. During a recent outdoor training session, I realised the concept fitted rather well with exploring aspects of 2D shape. Each child needs a piece of calico cotton or old sheet....
Aug 30, 2016 | Early Years Outdoors, Literacy Outdoors
Letter formation is an element of learning to write that works surprisingly well outside. A child’s ability to form letters is strongly linked to their overall development in combination with an interest in and desire to write. If we introduce formal...
Aug 7, 2016 | Science Outdoors, Technologies
“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion. This is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see...
Aug 1, 2016 | Whole School
At this time of year, there’s lots of advice flying around for newly qualified teachers embarking on their first job. Here’s some advice from the outside about some essential resources to help get you going. Let me know what else you would add to the list...
