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Things have been quiet round here…

November 17, 2013May 19, 2014 / Rachel Stevens

This little one has been keeping me rather busy, but I hope to be back on this blog soon.

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And then we were one ✨ . . It’s been one whole year of running Beach School here on the East Kent coast. We’ve been on the beach in every season, in (nearly) every weather and we’ve met hundreds of children. We’ve played with the wind, the waves, the shingle and sand. We’ve met countless dwellers of the intertidal zone and have even been visited, on numerous occasions, by curious Grey Seals. . . We’ve learnt an awful lot, but what remains at the heart of the Beach School remains the same: helping our coastal families have real relationships with their natural environment. And this what we’ll continue to do. . . Happy first birthday Little Gulls Beach School 💙

Outdoor learning is now supported by the Royal Family and the Chelsea Flower Show (see @kensingtonroyal) This is big big news for those of us that have been banging this [tree stump] drum for a very long time . . . But I’m still concerned about outdoor learning being only for the privileged. It’s easy for people like me (and, indeed, the Duchess) to say that children should be learning outdoors more often because we have privileges, abilities and experience that allow us to make it happen. We can look at the facts - outdoor learning would be of huge value for ALL children. It isn’t just for the Under 5s, the early years, the home educated, the Steiner Schools, the after school clubs... It certainly isn’t something that we need to be pressurising parent to be taking on, while their children are in school SIX hours a day. We need to normalise it. But to normalise it we need to fully address the barriers. . . . I hear about ‘outstanding’. schools and nurseries struggling to instigate a culture of outdoor learning in their settings and I want to help. Let’s push this forwards. Do we need to be pushing for more outdoor learning from the bottom, maybe creating training opportunities for educators and school leaders? Could that just be adding to the stress of overworked teaching staff? Or does it need to come very clearly from the top? From Ofsted? From DfE...? . . . Which is why I am reaching out to the teachers, educators, governors, parents or anyone with an interest who follow me - What are your experiences of trying to introduce more outdoor learning in your schools and settings? What are the barriers? What needs to change? Where do we need to push to make a difference? What your experiences and your realities, so I can help shape something that would truly be of value? The bandwagon has got some influential new passengers, let’s see how far we can roll it...

We’ve pulled out @the_little_oak_learning Spring Curriculum for the last time this season and have thrown ourselves in the flowers topic. Today, after Farm School, we picnicked amongst wildflowers and collected a very select few for our charity shopped flower press. With no time constraints, we drove home the pretty way and I write this while we wait for our bread dough to prove (and while there is yet another game of ‘let’s go to school’ going on in the garden.) . . This idyll is totally unrepresentative of the last few months. But goodness me, this is what I want to remember.

The Beach School turns ✨ONE✨ on 24th May. I think it deserves a party. How shall we celebrate? 🎉

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