Video: Urban Outdoor Play
‘You don’t need to be in forest to be outside.’ Hamish Orr from Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Glasgow, shares ideas and enthusiasm for outdoor play in towns and cities (C19A)
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Video: Outdoor Play, Health and Wellbeing
What happens when we spend more time outdoors? Zoe Sills from Earthtime for All in Elgin, explains the benefits of outdoor play-based learning for adults and children in Scotland. (C19A)
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Video: Outdoor ELC for Practitioners: What’s it like to work in a fully outdoor nursery?
Staff from all levels talk us through their experience of working in an outdoor nursery in Scotland. The Scottish Outdoor ELC workforce message is, ‘You have to try it!’
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Video: Outdoor ELC for Parents: Why do parents choose an outdoor nursery experience for their child?
Parents share their experiences and reasons for choosing an outdoor nursery in Scotland for their child. ‘From One Parent to Another.’
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Video: Outdoor ELC for Children: What do children think of their outdoor nursery?
What better way to hear what it’s like to attend an outdoor nursery in Scotland than from the children?
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Video: Connecting with Nature in ELC 2
Ever wondered how you can help out local wildlife? A budding ornithologist from Edinburgh Forest Kindergarten show us how to ‘Build a house for a Robin’
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Video: Connecting with Nature in ELC 1
There are lots of requests for fire building training in early years. A future Outdoor Education Officer from Craighead Country Nursery shows us his top tips.
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Video – Practitioner Tips: Knots and Ropes by FCDWL
Don’t get in a tangle – learn all about ropes and knots with Si the knot guy from Family & Community Development West Lothian.
Read MoreGuide: SDS assessment process for children with additional support needs
A short video from the Self-direct Support Forum in East Renfrewshire explaining the SDS assessment process specifically for children and the terminology parents may encounter.
Read More“Physical activity levels are far too low” – children’s health & well-being in Canada & Scotland
Dr. Mark Tremblay of HALO Research and Prof. John Reilly of the University of Strathclyde discuss childhood inactivity levels in Canada and Scotland from the Active Healthy Kids Report Card 2016 – one of the reasons we strive for physically active outdoor play for all of Scotland’s children.
Read More“It’s safer outdoors than in indoors.”
Dr. Mark Tremblay of Canada’s HALO Research talks to Prof. John Reilly of the University of Strathclyde and Rachel Cowper of Inspiring Scotland about how, counter to to popular belief, it is safer for children to be outdoors than indoors. This video is part of a series on the health crisis faced by young children
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