Our Outdoor Poetry activities offer a number of ways of exploring and playing with words – and are particularly appropriate at a time when the benefits of outdoor learning are more evident than ever before!
Teaching Resource: Outdoor Poetry Activity
Author: Jo Stokes
Teaching Resource: Forest of Dreams – Transition
Promoting aspirational thinking, and using a metaphor of nurture and growth, this activity is a great way of supporting your pupils in thinking about and articulating their hopes and dreams as they prepare to transition to high school. Instructions (1) Explain to the pupils that they are going to be thinking about their forthcoming move … Read More
After School Drama Clubs for Primary Schools
Our after school Drama clubs provide the perfect opportunity for children to enjoy, and benefit from, a range of activities including drama games, improvisation, choral speaking, script reading and performance. It is widely accepted that drama builds confidence as well as helping children to understand the world around them and developing both creativity and emotional … Read More
Teaching Resource: Observational Maths Bingo
Welcome to Observational Bingo! We at as creatives love looking for Maths in everyday life, so we’ve had great fun putting this together – and we hope you enjoy it. Your task is to find an example of each item on one of the five downloadable and printable Observational Bingo Grids, make a note of … Read More
Learning Outside the Classroom Opportunities in Maths and English
Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds. Every year we work with schools across the UK to help realise the potential of their outdoor space/s for creative learning opportunities. Outdoor MathsSchools’ outdoor areas offer a wealth of stimulus for learning in Literacy. Whether it’s an observational poetry … Read More
Blog: Learning Outside the Classroom
A nostalgic whim took me on a detour recently, to show my kids where I had built dens amongst trees and bracken as a dirty-kneed nine year old. It was the same spot, I told them on our approach, where my big brothers regularly rode their bikes on dirt tracks, over obstacles and down dips … Read More
Case Study: Shaking up Shakespeare
Sadly, it is still very often the case that when students arrive in one of our Shakespeare workshops, the dread is written all over their faces! The fear that they won’t understand it or that it will be boring, or just plain irrelevant, is palpable. However, it is a challenge we relish and it doesn’t … Read More
Case Study: Personification Poetry
Having delivered poetry workshops for West Derby School last summer term I was delighted to be asked back again this July to support the students in celebrating the school’s International Week. An average sized, boys’ secondary school, West Derby had chosen Nepal as the theme for their celebration in 2013 but this year, rather than … Read More
Case Study: Building a Geodesic Science Dome at St John Bosco
St John Bosco is an Arts specialist college, so it is no surprise that they value arts activities and outcomes. Our geodesic domes are rather impressive both in structure and in size, so one can make a brilliant way to display work done by students, both individually and as a finished collaborative artwork in itself. … Read More
Case Study: Creating a Prayer Trail at Childwall CE Primary
There is no shortage of green and leafy, outdoor space at Childwall C of E Primary so we were delighted to be invited to support the development of a Prayer Trail set in their grounds. In particular, we focused on giving thanks and having spent a day with Year 4 exploring the things in our … Read More
Teaching Resource: Seasonal Landmarks School Calendar 2016 – 2017
From the Big Draw to World Book Day and from Holocaust Memorial Day to National Science and Engineering Week, seasonal landmarks can be a great planning aid. The Seasonal Landmarks School Calendar marks some of the most useful “days” and “weeks” from September 2016 to July 2017. Not only that, but, because we’ve included links to … Read More
Case Study: Exploring the 5Rs at St Mary’s College
When students are working hard towards their GCSEs it’s easy for them to forget why they are taking them in the first place. It’s all about preparing them for the future of course, and to give them the best opportunities and as much choice as possible as they reach the end of this phase of … Read More
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