Aug 21, 2023 | Art & Music Outdoors, Early Years Outdoors, Technologies
In 2001, on a Comenius outdoor learning course in Sweden, I had the opportunity to try felting. It was a disaster. I managed to dye my wool using fresh young birch leaves and carded it reasonably well. But the felting process was my failing. I returned home, my...
Aug 18, 2023 | Art & Music Outdoors, Community Involvement
This is one of the most emotional posts I have written. Last December, Rachel Singer, a primary teacher I worked with many years ago, died from bowel cancer. She was in her forties. Kinellar School was the only place she taught, beginning in nursery and eventually...
Aug 15, 2023 | Health & Wellbeing, Whole School
All over Scotland, children are gearing up for their first few days back at school. So are the teachers. I always used to be a bag of nerves on my first day back, even when working in small schools and having the same children. However, reading a few books about...
