Places

Find updates on play, learning, and the environment, from across the wider network in Scotland – and beyond.

5thDecember 2024

Muddy matters – exploring the soil beneath our feet

Join RHET on a journey in this video to find out more about soil and why it’s much more than just dirt under our feet. After having a cup of tea and a biscuit we hear from farmers, ecologists and land managers about the role of soil in helping produce [...]

5thDecember 2024

What Makes a Great Outdoor Classroom?

Thrive Outdoors produced this resource for Outdoor Classroom Day, to support all ages and stages. Great Outdoor Classrooms aims to encourage everyone outdoors to explore built and natural environments and develop a sense of place and place-based practice.

5thDecember 2024

Pollinator Map of Scotland

The Pollinator Map of Scotland provides planners, developers and others with a quick and easy way to identify, at Scotland or local authority scale, where there is most scope for improvement or extending habitat for pollinators. This has been shared in the latest newsletter in the series of Planning for [...]

5thDecember 2024

Wilding Wee Spaces Project launched in Edinburgh

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 wee space' that they can use for enhancing learning. Discover more here and explore the online map of wild wee spaces.

26thNovember 2024

Conservation traineeship opportunity in Argyll & the Inner Hebrides

Butterfly Conservation is offering an exciting 12-month traineeship opportunity in Argyll & the Inner Hebrides as part of the Species on the Edge programme. The role will be focused on learning biological recording of butterflies and moths with opportunities to work on other species within the wider programme too.