Feb 1, 2023 | Literacy Outdoors
Valentine’s Day provides ample opportunities to get outside. This blog post shares some literacy-based ideas for middle and upper primary school-aged children that I did with workshop participants one February in-set day. The first task was to make some green...
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...
