Pappus update
The PLL team has been working throughout lockdown on writing resources for the PAPPUS Erasmus+ project. It has been a testing time for...
5 ideas for mark-making outdoors
Ideas for physically active mark-making outdoors
Pappus: the lockdown transnational meeting
Meeting our Erasmus+ partners, virtually, to discuss ways to help schools introduce plants into learning and play.
Seeds of change... Erasmus +
The PAPPUS project will disperse seeds of change in the lives of young people, using the natural world, botany and horticulture, in a playfu
Hurrah! Outdoor Classroom Day!
Springtime's Outdoor Classroom Day is almost upon us - the twice-yearly campaign now has over 3.5m children participating, all around the...
Early Years Spring Summit 2019
Monday 29th April marks day one of Kathy Brodie's 'Early Years Spring Summit'. Each spring, Kathy rounds up a range of early years...
Are you the Mad March Teacher?
Making the most of any last minute end-of-year budget underspends (ha!).
STEM Outdoors: action research CPD for KS1+2
Our new action research style CPD course brings you our most effective, tried and tested ideas to take STEM learning outdoors. The...
Risk-taking and resilience: lessons from the design, use and management of Japanese schoolyards.
Julie Mountain and Mary Jackson are heading to Tokyo this month, to attend the International School Grounds Alliance 2018 conference, and...
Beyond the Pond
Are school ponds making a comeback? In recent months I've visited several schools with sadly unloved ponds, yet each school expresses l
3, 4 Open the Door
Felicity and I have been updating our CPD courses - the first one to get the treatment is our brilliant (if we do say it ourselves) early...
Book review: Dirty Teaching
Review of Juliet Robertson's first book, Dirty Teaching.
The Hanging Gardens of Alice Fong Yu
One of the schoolyards I was most impressed by on the International Green Schoolyards Conference tours was at Alice Fong Yu, America’s...
