Playful activity ideas using sticks - if you only have an hour outdoors with your children, make the most of it!

Making the most of any last minute end-of-year budget underspends (ha!).

Find out how children in Berkeley get to build their own play landscapes.

Felicity and I have been updating our CPD courses - the first one to get the treatment is our brilliant (if we do say it ourselves) early years maths and numeracy action research CPD. We've updated it to include new thinking, new activity ideas and the latest ideas about the importance of physicality and movement in young children's learning. The new programme is suitable for early years practitioners wishing to take a lead on, or with responsibility for outdoor learning thr

I admit it: I steal; I scavenge; I can't walk past a skip without peering into it. And I blame my mum. As a child, the principles of 'waste not, want not' and 'refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle' were instilled into me by my mum (Hi Mum! <waves>), who was waaaaay ahead of her time when it came to environmental issues. The result is my addiction to charity shops, an ability to chop up and sew pretty much anything into anything else, and a possibly unhealthy attitude to other peopl

SAVE OUR TIP Alresford Recycling Centre is under threat, despite playing a crucial role in keeping the town and its surrounding countryside tidy and safe. PLUS - the tip is a regular haunt of our 50 Dangerous Things playscheme and we would be devatated to lose it. I made this poster of our skip scavenging activities during Summer camp, to promote the tip and support the Save Our Tip campaign. UPDATE: The campaign was successful! In 2017, Alresford tip was taken over by Veol