Here’s a blog from The Wildlife Trusts about good news for wildlife. It begins: “Today the European Commission agreed not to ‘open’ up the Birds and Habitats Directives (the ‘Nature Directives’) – these are key European wildlife protection laws which had been the subject of a review into their effectiveness. Opening up these laws to further…
Here’s a recent RSPB blog (by Kevin Middleton) about the forthcoming Big Garden Birdwatch. It begins: “Before this weekend I rarely spent a prolonged period of time watching the birds in our garden. It was a revelation to see who visited and I am now ‘hooked’!” We get messages like this from thousands of people every year…
The Magic Breakfast project provided 106 schools with support and resources to offer a free, universal, before-school breakfast club, including to all Year 2 and Year 6 pupils. The aim of the project was to improve attainment outcomes by increasing the number of children who ate a healthy breakfast. The schools in the project were…
ERE is another acronym to keep up to date with. It stands for Education for Responsible Entrepreneurship which is “an alternative approach to enterprise education”. “These troubled economic times mean that we need enterprising people now more than ever. Fresh thinkers who spot opportunities, apply their entrepreneurial talents and overcome the obstacles to make their ideas…
This is how the most recent blog by Phil Rothwell, the Head of UK Corporate and Public Affairs for The Wildlife Trusts, begins: “Wildlife knows no political boundaries. I was reminded of this recently when I visited archaeological digs at Must Farm and Flag Fen in East Anglia. The finds of fish hooks and the…
Click here to read blogs from the Children and Nature Network [CNN]. These include Stephen Kellert’s REFLECTIONS ON CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCE OF NATURE: Honoring a visionary through his own words and Susan Bales’ GETTING THE URBAN INTO NATURE: New Research and New Thinking
This is a link to the NAAEE website, our sibling organisation in North America (covering the USA, Mexico and Canada). It has strong links with the US EPA: the Environmental Protection Agency. Some of these connections are financial; others are less tangible, but just as significant. It’s a relationship that we in the UK have had…
Here’s PART 3 of the latest round up of recent and relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items issued by the partnership of Natural England, The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom and Historic England on behalf of and for the Strategic Research Groups. This supports the…
In May, NAEE will have a vacancy for a trustee on its governing board. This is the trustee person spec: Essential An NAEE Trustee will be … a professionally active, experienced UK-based practitioner and / or researcher in environmental education or a closely-related field well known and respected, and someone whose…
We missed the announcement of the government’s new plan for National Parks. Its aim is to “kickstart a programme of activity to safeguard the future of these iconic landscapes”. Every schoolchild in England will have the chance to visit our inspiring National Parks at each stage of their education under plans announced today by Environment…
This is the final part of a late 2016 round up from Natural England of research on the benefits to be had from being in the natural environment … Diversity and Inclusion at Heritage Organizations A Davis, A Ifill, LAW Tamai – Forum Journal, 2016 This interview explores diversity and inclusion as organizational priorities at heritage organizations. Interviewees…
This is the second part of a late 2016 round up from Natural England of research on the benefits to be had from being in the natural environment … Science learning in the outdoors to support primary–secondary transition K Kerr – 2016 This article builds on and contributes to work in the area of science learning in the…