Sharing practice for outdoor learning

Supporting multilingual approaches with children and families

Project to support children and families who speak English as an additional language to become more involved in nursery life. This has been assisted through the use of multilingual, multimedia resources developed to improve daily communication between staff, children and families.

Published on 9 May 2011

Active learning in action: Developing an outdoor learning environment

The project involved developing the outdoor environment within the nursery grounds with the full involvement of the children, parents and local community.

Published on 21 April 2010

Percy the Puffin returns home

An event set up in the National Early Years Glow Group where children across Scotland developed their literacy, numeracy and expressive arts skills by welcoming back Scotland’s puffins.

Published on 29 April 2009

The great outdoors

A case study example of how Grounds for Learning supported a nursery to develop and transform its outdoor space.

Published on 27 October 2008

Our nursery garden development

Encouraging children to learn more about the environment and the natural world through their own garden project.

Published on 24 August 2007

Glen Family Centre

Glen Family Centre went on a wet weather walk and produced a group poem about the experience.

Published on 15 July 2007

Practical Applications of Contextualised Teaching (PACT)

Find out how primary schools in Angus are using purposeful play to develop numeracy.

Published on 4 June 2007

We're going on a bear hunt!

Sanday Community School worked with a wind trio from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, on a project based on the children's story 'We're going on a bear hunt!'.

Published on 1 June 2007