Planting Trees in Small Spaces – the low plastic way
Tree planting season is here! This useful NHS Forest article (18 July 2024) is equally applicable if you are considering planting trees in school grounds or gardens. Check out their article on Low-plastic tree planting (11 June 2024) as well!
Selkirk High receive Best School Garden national award 2023
Check out what Selkirk High have been up to! Visit The Cultivation Street national ‘Best School Garden’ 2023.
Making access to nature equal for all children – stories from the U.S.
Nature Everywhere Communities/ CCCN share news national news stories highlighting the importance of equitable access to nature for all children. This includes: How greener schoolyards benefits kids - and the whole community (Grist, 14 August 2024) Milwaukee’s green schoolyards gain national attention (19 August 2024) How time in nature builds [...]
Apply for round two of the Local School Nature Grants programme!
Round two of Learning Through Landscapes’s grants programme is open until 6 September. Apply for your chance to get £500 of outdoor equipment for your school, plus training.
Call for updated school grounds regulations in Scotland
Learning Through Landscapes have issued a call to join the Scottish School Grounds Collective to help to improve the quality and use of all school grounds in Scotland. Read the blog.
Scorching schoolyards: California groups want more trees, less asphalt at schools
Greenspace Scotland have shared this article describing how schoolyards are hot and getting hotter. Researchers and advocates are pushing the state to allocate money for green schoolyards, which can include trees, grass or gardens in place of asphalt or rubber play surfaces at most schools. Find this story and more [...]
Stronger Starts funds Selkirk school sensory garden
Greenspace Scotland share how Selkirk High School staff and pupils have transformed an area of unused waste ground on the school grounds into a blooming nurture sensory garden with relaxing areas to enjoy the outdoors and observe wildlife. Find this story and more in Greenspace Scotland Monthly e bulletin June [...]
Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised
This article in the Guardian (16 June 2024) shares how science research on specific benefits for children’s behaviour and thinking is catching up with established wellbeing claims.
