Inspiring Outdoor Learning during lock-down: restrictions, barriers and opportunities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We all know that one of the biggest challenges we are currently facing globally is reconnecting children back to school life. Teach Outdoors is delighted to have teamed up with Muddy Feet to create a Life Skills Toolkit to help those working with children to identify key life skills and how to use them. YouRead more
This year Children’s Mental Health week is the 1st-7th February. I don’t think anyone needs me to tell them, with the current COVID pandemic, how important it is to talk about feelings with our children. Most of us have probably been on our own emotional roller coasters. When the first lockdown hit, I started doingRead more
October is officially Dyslexia awareness month. One in ten are thought to have dyslexia, so in a class of 30 children you are more than likely to have at least a couple of children with dyslexic tendencies. I’m not sure about you but I don’t ever recall, as a trainee teacher, having any training aboutRead more
This book was recommended to me when I was completing my Protective Behaviours training. If you don’t know about Protective Behaviours I highly recommend you find out more. Here’s the link to their website. Story Outline The story is about a girl who starts to worry about lots of everyday things and one day sheRead more
Book Review I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in training lots of teachers and schools in taking the curriculum outdoors. One of the most common barriers I hear from colleagues is that they don’t know what to teach outdoors or how to teach it. If you Google outdoor learning there are lots of resourcesRead more