QMU

5thDecember 2024

Leading and Enhancing Community Learning Outdoors March 2025 – free places!

05.12.24|Categories: Training|Tags: , , , , |

This online course is delivered in eight weekly twilight sessions and starts on Wednesday 5th March 2025. Several free places are available for anyone working, volunteering or leading outdoor learning in a community learning context in Scotland. The course aims to offer educators and leaders in outdoor learning an opportunity [...]

26thNovember 2024

QMU wins Inspiring Learning Places Award at Learning Places Scotland 2024!

26.11.24|Categories: Events, Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , |

Congratulations to Patrick Boxall (Lecturer in Education) and the Queen Margaret University team, winning the category for 'Inspiring Learning Places at the Learning Places Scotland Awards. This was the only nature-based project to win, and the QMU Wee Forest was a key part of the nomination.

9thApril 2024

QMU supports outdoor learning and Wee Forests

09.04.24|Categories: Places|Tags: , , |

Listen to this recent BBC Radio Scotland Scotland Outdoors (6 April 2024) programme (sign in required). Join Patrick Boxall (lecturer in Education, Queen Margaret University) for a tour around the new outdoor learning hub and Wee Forest. Listen to him describe the benefits of learning in nature outdoors (from 1.14.37 [...]

15thNovember 2022

Wee Forest takes root at Queen Margaret University’s Outdoor Learning Hub

15.11.22|Categories: Places|Tags: , , , , , |

Wee Forests provide a great resource for Outdoor Learning and for STEM learning outdoors. NatureScot provided funding to establish a Wee Forest at Queen Margaret University's Outdoor Learning Hub in 2022.  This means every year hundreds of undergraduate school teachers learn about the benefits of teaching outdoors. Check out this [...]

23rdSeptember 2021

University branches out with outdoor learning for future teachers

23.09.21|Categories: Miscellaneous, Training|Tags: , , , , , , |

STV news (17 September 2021) shares how first year teaching student are gaining skills in delivering with outdoor lessons, at Queen Margaret University’s new outdoor learning hub. The university is revising the way it teaches life lessons and is looking to impart the skills it takes to teach outside.