The Playful Green Planet Network – Dundee
Following the launch of the Playful Green Planet Network in 2024, find out more about this bold new initiative to roll out nature-based play and outdoor learning across the UK. In Scotland, Dundee’s Coldside is the programme’s first Scottish site. This will be transformed into nature-based play spaces inspired by [...]
Playwell Podcast – The MAXwell Centre, Dundee
Play Scotland speak to Dannielle Don, a Youth Development Worker at The MAXwell Centre in Dundee. Dannielle began as a volunteer in 2014, and now works supporting local primary schools and nurseries, helping children plan, plant, and maintain their garden plots. Everything she does is focused on building confidence, skills, and [...]
Wee art in the Wee Forest – nature-based community art therapy
Read about this pilot study in Dundee Wee art in the Wee Forest: a nature-based community art therapy pilot. Full citation: Vicky Gray Armstrong, Gillian McFarland & Alison Ramm (2025) Wee art in the Wee Forest: a nature-based community art therapy pilot, International Journal of Art Therapy, 30:1, 17-27, DOI: [...]
Can primary schools in Dundee access and use their Wee Forests and green spaces?
This report is now published by NatureScot. This study was carried out by University of Dundee on behalf of NatureScot during January to March 2024. It explored the educative, health and wellbeing use and value of Wee Forest sites and additional local green spaces from the perspectives of primary school [...]
Learning for Sustainability: young people and practitioner perspectives
This report (8 February 2023) commissioned by the Scottish Government is based on research conducted by a team at the University of Dundee into the understanding and implementation of Learning for Sustainability amongst young people aged 14+ in school and community learning and development settings and the practitioners responsible for [...]
Dundee’s positive changes
This post on Scottish Pollinators (21 November 2023) shares the great strides Dundee City Council has been making to implement a range of measures to help biodiversity across the city.
Creating a school meadow has brought us closer to nature
This article in the TES (14th April 2023), written by the Head teacher of Morgan Academy Dundee, has been shared by Children in Scotland. Headteacher Johnny Lothian describes how The Eden Project helped sow a wildflower meadow in the school grounds. Read how this partnership project has become an important [...]
Dundee’s greenspaces are getting greener!
Greenspace Scotland report on this as Project of the Month in their July bulletin. This article describes how Dundee City Council now have 27 sites across the city that they manage in new ways, as either biodiversity-rich meadows (‘biodiversity grasslands’) or less-intensively managed grasslands (‘naturalised grasslands’). The council were encouraged [...]
