The Guardian website carried an evocative article last week that originally appeared in the Manchester Guardian in March 1916. It begins, “The sun went down a huge ball almost blood-red in colour, and so vast that half the heaven in the west seemed to be covered. As it sank, all that remained of this ruddy twilight…
Here are the activities that Dirt has identified over the next two weeks. Sunday 20th March Forest School Club – Gravesend, Kent (10am – 12:15pm) Hedge Planting Party – Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (11am – 1pm) Worcester Soup March – Worcester, Worcestershire (3pm – 6pm) Monday 21st March ‘Mistletoe, mapping soil variation, his PhD, soil science & precision agriculture!’ – Southend,…
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom has announced new training opportunities for 2016. It says: “We have revised and updated our training programme to ensure that we continue to improve and meet the needs of those working in learning outside the classroom. Our training programme now offers a clear progression, so that you can build…
The deadline for making submissions to the House of Commons Education select committee enquiry into the purpose and quality of education in England has now passed, and you can find all the written evidence on the committee website. A significant section of the evidence provided had a focus, one way or another, on outdoor learning,…
The Parks Alliance – the national voice of UK parks – has announced that Nesta, Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund have published a report ‘Learning to Rethink Parks’ which presents the lessons from Rethinking Parks, an 18 month programme designed to find and test ways for Britain’s national parks to source new sustainable…
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The Bumblebee Conservation Trust says that a foraging bumblebee with a full-stomach is only ever about 40 minutes from starvation, so “help feed bumblebees”, it says. Here’s an informative 10 minute video on YouTube about what plants to grow in the garden. It’s full of information about how vital bees, in general, are to our food…
To celebrate becoming an Eco Schools partner, Jaga has launched a competition to find creative writers to write a short story about an Eco Warrior. Some questions pupils might like to think about are: what would their Eco Warrior do to help the environment, what type of house would they live in, would they have any…
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Rachel Carless Project Manager at the RSPB’s Arun & Rother Connections explores the project’s work with local primary schools. The Arun & Rother Connections (ARC) project is a landscape scale project being delivered by a partnership of seven organisations in West Sussex. The aims of the project are to: Promote a rich and thriving river…
The winners of the 2015/16 Alu D&T Challenge, a design competition for 11 to 14 year olds, were announced at a prize-giving event at the Thinktank Science Museum in Birmingham on 24 February. The national schools’ competition, linked to the Key Stage 3 Design and Technology curriculum, helps teach pupils learn about the properties and sustainability…
Margaret Bates, professor of sustainable waste management at the University of Northampton, allowed the BBC go through her rubbish, weigh it out and chart its journeys from her home to various points near and very far. The results are revealing. After it is collected, Margaret Bates’ waste is sent to firms which specialise in different…