Jan 31, 2023 | Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces
This is an incredibly simply activity to kickstart a whole school approach to developing your school grounds or simply for one class to think about their outdoor space. It also makes a refreshing, purposeful addition to other Valentine’s Day happenings. 1....
Jan 29, 2023 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Early Years Outdoors
Children love water play. I have always loved the work of Tom “Sensori” Bedard who writes the blog Sand and Water Tables. It’s very niche and all about engaging children through well-thought out apparatus and creations at the sand and water trays....
Jan 28, 2023 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Early Years Outdoors
Pallets are “in” in the world of outdoor play. And Stramash outdoor nurseries are up there in terms of the creative constructions which are appearing in nurseries across the world. In 2016 at Fort William this amazing play station was developed. In...
Jan 25, 2023 | Literacy Outdoors, Social Subjects Outdoors
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching and Burn’s night recently passed, many teachers rather cleverly merge the two by choosing Robert Burn’s poem, A Red Red Rose as a focus for a lesson. Rabbie Burns, like many poets and writers took inspiration...
Jan 23, 2023 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Early Years Outdoors, Play Resources
Some practitioners work in settings and schools where they cannot leave equipment out overnight. Usually storage space is pretty tight too. Thus I wanted to look at ways of creating simple, portable water walls which children could create themselves. Many years ago I...
