by Marina Robb | Jul 20, 2021 | Play Day, Play Day 2021, playday 2021
Playday 2021 – Nature Based Therapeutic Play 4th of August is ‘Playday’ – The Annual Celebration of Children’s Rights to Play Creative Reality by Kate Macairt Playday 2021, it feels really important this year for us to contemplate what PLAY is and its...
by Marina Robb | May 18, 2021 | Connect with Nature|Mental Health|Mental Health Awareness|Mental Health Awareness Week|nature benefits|Nature Connection|Uncategorized
Mental Health Awareness Week – Connect with Nature Well-being: The Self, Other, our Mental Health and Nature, By Marina Robb Growing up is never easy! Often what we long for as adults, is really an indicator of what we need most in our lives. As practitioners...
by Marina Robb | May 18, 2021 | Forest School|Forest School Sessions|Forest School Sessions East Sussex|Forest school Training|Forest School Training Level 3|Ramadan|Ramadan in Forest School|Uncategorized
Forest School in Ramadan By Nadine Marroushi – Forest School Training Student This month is a holy month for Muslims around the world. This week we are celebrating Forest School in Ramadan. The Islamic calendar is based around the lunar cycle and this year it...
by Marina Robb | May 18, 2021 | Earth Day|Uncategorized
Going Full Circle – Earth Day 2021 By Lisa Gylsen, Director Thinking about Earth Day has made me reflect on certain times in my life when I just felt alive. I’m sure you know what I mean. One of those times for me was when myself and three others from the UK...
by Marina Robb | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
International Day of Forests On Spring Equinox weekend, we celebrate International Day of Forests! Traditionally this is a day to remember the balance of light and dark and the movement out of winter into Spring. After the year we have all experienced, there is hope...
by Marina Robb | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
For many years I have held the question, ‘What motivates people to care about the natural world and value nature.’ Yet, as we know so well, access to nature is not available to all, and that the bright screens of the 21st Century enclose us ever more to the indoors....
by Marina Robb | May 18, 2021 | CPD|Creative Star Learning|Early Years|Juliet Robertson|Kindergarten|Literacy|Literacy Day|Messy Maths|Outdoor Learning|Schools|teachers|Uncategorized
For Literacy Day here are 10 reasons to teach literacy outside. The Covid crisis has shown an increase in 60% of our population’s appreciation of the natural world. Yet still so many of our children have not had access to nature during these months or as part of their...
by Marina Robb | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Growing up is never easy! Often what we long for as adults, is really an indicator of what we need most in our lives. As practitioners who work with children and young people, we are more effective when we have the ability to know our unmet needs which provides a...
