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What Learning from Educators across the United States made me Question about the Future of Scottish Education
“Educational evolution can only happen where there is enough freedom for new ideas to grow.”
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More Hours. Less Choice. Why Scotland’s Childcare System Risks Driving Innovation Away
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...
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I Didn’t Leave Teaching. I Left an Outdated Idea of Learning!
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.
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Why We Started Wee Foragers
A Froebelian approach to food and sustainability, nurturing the whole child through nature, play, and purposeful experiences.
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The Gatekeepers of Childhood
There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of Scotland’s early years system.
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What is the Measure of Clever?
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.
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Shipping containers to create nursery at scouts’ Fife HQ - Fife Free Press
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