Oct 10, 2024 | Literacy Outdoors
Okay, last week I blogged about sticky letters. This week it’s letters made from sticks. I blame one child. I passed him in the corridor whilst I was carrying a pile of sticks. His face lit up and he asked if they were for his class. So I told him that the next...
Sep 27, 2024 | Personal & Holidays
“When we walk to the edge of all the light we have, and we take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on, or we will be taught how to fly.”Patrick...
Aug 10, 2024 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Play Resources
*NOTE* This blog post was originally written in June 2013. At the time of writing, having loose stumps around your play space was commonplace. However, some local authorities may have guidelines that expect wooden moveable items to be safely locked away each night to...
Aug 10, 2024 | Whole School
Advice note for hard-working educators and partner providers of outdoor learning and play: This list can appear overwhelming. Not every document is relevant for your day-to-day work with children and young people. Neither is this put together as a reading list. I put...
Jul 21, 2024 | Early Years Outdoors, Whole School
‘In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kind of variables in it.” Simon Nicholson In 1971, Simon Nicholson wrote an article in a Landscape Architecture journal...
