Which do our 7 year-olds need most, asks Ben Fogle in a recent Guardian article. He begins: Government plans to introduce national tests for seven-year-olds shows just how far our exam obsession has come. Our kids now face constant assessment as politicians attempt to measure the success of schools. Children have become tiny cogs in a box-ticking…
Here’s a film about Biodiversity from Natural England. It’s about Biodiversity 2020, describing the government’s strategy for wildlife: habitats and species. The film is narrated by Tom Butterworth and is filmed out on location, in Wye National Nature Reserve in Kent.
This 276 page hardback isn’t something you’d be throwing in your rucksack before setting out into the great unknown. However, leafing through its pages of beautiful photos and useful diagrams would mean that a few pages captured in a photo or photocopy to take with you as a visual aid would be well worth the…
Exploring by the Seat of Our Pants is one of the two articles published by Green Teacher in its September 2015 edition that is freely available to read. We are highlighting it here to draw your attention both to the article, and to Green Teacher itself, as this is a journal that NAEE finds to be consistently informative and interesting.…
The Met Office has tweeted some informative maps of our recent weather. You’ll also find a list of the names of all the recent Winter storms as well as those about to come. A welcome, of sorts, to Gertrude and Henry.
ITN has two examples of how small-scale geo-engineering schemes have helped the area around Penrith in Cumbria cope with excess rainfall. A piece of rare good news for the New Year in these sodden times.
Three primary schools were crowned Birmingham’s wildest schools at the Wildlife Trust’s EcoPark in Small Heath at a special event late last year to celebrate learning about nature. TV personality, naturalist and ambassador for the Wildlife Trusts’ Forest Schools project, Nick Baker, presented the awards to the three schools and also spent time exploring the wildlife…
Just before Christmas, it was announced that Tony Juniper, the campaigner, writer and environmentalist, had been appointed President of The Wildlife Trusts in order to “help the Trusts to support nature’s recovery on land and at sea and to put nature at the heart of society.” His recent book What Nature Does For Britain explores the far-reaching impact…
Circle of Life Rediscovery aims to enable practitioners to foster a more mature relationship with the natural world and leave you inspired with a bag full of practical and theoretical tools that link to an educational/learning based setting. It offers bespoke training courses to improve outdoor learning drawing on best practice from around the world. For example: Nature Connection…
As part of its Resources features, the Geographical Association has a new feature on climate change. This begins: “Climate change is an important and historic geographical process which looks into the past, present and future. But what is the evidence for climate change? What causes it, and what impact will it have on environments and…
Here’s a link to a Wildlife Trusts blog which featured the writings of Abi Elphinstone. “It was the holly tree in my garden that taught me to be brave. I’d climbed all the others – the wellingtonia, the beech and the sycamore – through the maze of jutting branches until I emerged into a world of buzzards…
EatBy App are encouraging families to turn fruit and vegetables into characters and to upload photographs onto the app and on social media. “We want to encourage kids to learn more about fruit and vegetables with their family, and become experts in avoiding food waste,” said Barbara Lewis, one of the founders of EatBy. Food…