Nominate your green giants today!
It’s time for the Holyrood Green Giant Awards 2022. Check out the Award categories, which include the Youth Champion Award, and Nature and the Environment Award.
Play Scotland and ScrapAntics Playday Event August 2022
For this year’s national day of play, join Play Scotland and ScrapAntics at Fruit Bowls Community Garden in Dundee for #Playday2022 on Wednesday 3rd August, 11am – 3pm. Date/Time: Wednesday 03/08/2022 11am-3pm Venue: Fruit Bowls Community Garden, Dundee Open to the public: yes The event will include an art activity and Loose Parts [...]
Scotland’s Biodiversity Strategy Consultation – have your say!
Scotland’s biodiversity is in crisis. The Scottish Government is proposing an ambitious new strategy to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and reverse it by 2045. We need your views on our ideas for how we make this happen. Learn more and get involved in the consultation. The consultation closes on 12 [...]
Outdoor Play & Learning (OPAL) in Scotland
Play Scotland have announced that OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) has arrived in Scotland. Administered by Play Scotland, OPAL is a school improvement programme targeting non-curricular play. It supports sustainable cultural change within schools, benefitting children and adults in a myriad of ways. Simon Knight is the national OPAL ‘mentor’. He [...]
Scotland’s Landscape Monitoring Programme
Scotland’s Nature blog post (29 June 2022) describes how landscape across Scotland it is monitored. It announces the publication of three new indicators: Urban Greenspace, Local Landscape Areas and Urban Vacant & Derelict Land, and shares useful statistics. This may be useful for Social Studies students at secondary and tertiary [...]
Net Zero Nation – nature and the outdoors
NetZero Nation shares ideas for an environmentally friendly summer. It shares information about nature and climate change in Scotland. Check out ideas for how we can all take action to help.
Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Action Plan
Learning for Sustainability Scotland have shared how Lucia Mateo-Ramon, Scottish Government is guiding the collaborative approach currently underway to strengthen Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Action Plan. Learning for Sustainability (LfS) is a cross-curricular approach which enables learners, educators, schools and their wider communities to build a socially-just, sustainable and equitable [...]
New Award will grow foresters of the future
A new Scottish Junior Forester Award has been launched . This aims to give children and young people an insight into a career in forestry, equipping them with the knowledge and practical skills so that they can help manage woodlands in their schools or communities. The Scottish Junior Forester Award [...]
