News, stories, and outdoor learning highlights from Little Bugs Nursery.
After more than a decade working across Scottish education and building outdoor learning provision, I have become increasingly concerned about the widening gap between Scotland's child-centred ambitions and the reality many families experience. This article explores why...
Questioning children’s learning environments and the birth of Wild Bugs.. As a dyslexic kid, school often felt like a place where everybody else had been given a set of instructions that I’d somehow missed. I wasn’t stupid. I was curious, creative and full of ideas. But much of what happened in the classroom felt disconnected from the real world and even more disconnected from how I learned best.
A Froebelian approach to food and sustainability, nurturing the whole child through nature, play, and purposeful experiences.
There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of Scotland’s early years system.
How our education system narrows what we recognise as intelligence and why it’s time to rethink what really matters for children, including the impact of indoor and outdoor learning environments.
