Beach Wheelchairs at Portobello

The beach wheelchairs are a free service staffed by volunteers. You need to phone in advance to book them. There is a mobile hoist to assist with transfers into the beach wheelchairs. They have a selection of different types and sizes of chairs depending on your needs which you can check out online

Scottish Wildlife Trust - Montrose Basin Visitor Centre

Montrose Basin is an enclosed estuary of the river South Esk covering 750 hectares, home to over 80,000 migratory birds – including pink-footed geese, Arctic terns, knots and sedge warblers. Our four-star visitor centre offers a great day out for all the family in Angus. When restrictions ease, sch

Bushcraft & Survival Skills

Our bushcraft & survival skills course teaches participants techniques that can be used to survive in the wilds. Our interactive demonstrations are then put into practice in a variety of scenarios. Participants will learn the following: Principles of survival and survival mindset Fire ligh

Nature Club at the Ross of Mull Community Garden

When covid guidelines prevented rangers accessing school grounds, our afterschool nature club with Bunessan Primary moved location to the new community garden. Children are collected from school by the ranger and volunteers, and together walk along a safe cycle path to the garden. We've planted tr

Wilding Wee Spaces

A collaboration between Edinburgh's Thriving Green Spaces project and local schools has brought this wee idea into reality. The aim is for every learning community to have a wild space that they can use for enhancing learning. Whether that is surveying plants and animals for STEM or using the area t

Outdoor Learning (coin value)

We utlised the outdoor green space and the available natural resources to practice coin values to create totals. The materials available to us included stones, twigs, flowers and leaves. I gave each of these items a different value (see images) and gave pupils the task of making a set total (i.e. 10

Measuring

P5 began by working with a partner to find something they thought was about 10cm long. We then spoke about how to accurately measure this and did so using rulers. I then challenged them to find something that was 30cm long and how could they do this. Some recognised that they could use their 10cm ob

Signs of Spring Hunt

After a discussion in class pupils in P2 took their clipboards and paper outside to the playground to look for signs of Spring. When they found something e.g. bud on a tree they were to sketch and write what they had found. A great activity for them to really focus on their surroundings and not

Getting Offsite: Group Management

As an Outdoor Learning teacher I am like a magpie stealing good ideas from all the brilliant professional out there. Here I have compiled a list of resources, strategies, teachers notes and websites that I have found useful over the years. Dynamic Risk Assessment Outdoor Learning Charter Prepa

Spring Equinox

Observing seasonal change forms a large part of our Outdoor Learning sessions. As a class we created the Ying Yang symbol to represent the balance that the Spring Equinox brings. We talked about the origins of the word meaning Equal Night and discussed how we had witnessed the change.