Aug 27, 2022 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces
Being able to visit a range of playgrounds and outdoor spaces has been one of the side benefits of working worldwide. It has also reminded me of a long overdue need to blog about the Children’s Garden at the Morton Aboretum just outside Chicago. The description...
Aug 24, 2022 | Early Years Outdoors, Gardening, Nature Play & Learning, Whole School
In late summer, wasps are growing woozy. Most don’t have much longer to live. The female wasps that have mated will leave the nest to hibernate over winter, so the social structure of the nest begins to go awry and the nest starts closing down for winter! At...
Aug 23, 2022 | Early Years Outdoors, Play Resources
Very often when I ran courses participants would tell me that they only have a patch of tarmac for the children to play on. Whilst in the long term, all sorts of changes can happen, in the short term, the space needs to be used cleverly. Permission is usually needed...
Aug 22, 2022 | Health & Wellbeing, Whole School
Schools in Scotland are shortly starting back after the summer holidays. Very often, teachers decide that “now is not the time” to be taking children outside, which is a pity as there’s lots of good reasons to be outside from the first day back: 1)...
Aug 19, 2022 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces
Public playgrounds, like public art fascinate me. There is such a range and diversity in every country I visit from the lonely swing and slide in a neighbourhood corner to a multi-million pound explosion of creativity and everything in between. When on tour, having a...
