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A practitioner’s guide: Tarp Tips

 

Part of Thrive Outdoors downloadable series of resources developed to support outdoor play.

“Tarp is one of the best bits of kit for Outdoor ELC?? What can I do with it??”

A tarp is one of the most useful resources in a practitioner’s backpack and is one of our essential pieces of kit for bringing ELC activities outdoors. They are low cost, versatile, can be washed down easily, dry quickly and are multi-functional.  This guide includes our top 10 tarp tips!

13.04.2021

A Practitioner’s Guide: Children’s Parliament Guest Blog

  In this blog post, Children’s Parliament team member and current student-teacher Catrin discusses her experiences of playing and learning outdoors and what can get in the way of children realising their right to play and their right to reach their full potential through education.  

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09.11.2021

Practitioners Guide Bite-sized tips: Grow your own mini pine tree

This week’s practitioner guide features bite-sized tips on growing your own mini pine tree – a great autumn activity to try out. Download to read our 5 tips on growing your own mini tree!   #TuesdayTips

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25.03.2019

Scotland’s Coalition for Outdoor Play and Learning Position Statement

  In 2018, we brought together a broad group of academics and organisations from education, childcare, healthcare, environment and government to create Scotland’s Outdoor Play and Learning Coalition. The Coalition created a bold position statement which committed signatories to working together to embed playing and learning outdoors as an everyday activity and a fundamental part

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