Outdoor Learning | Miss Elvy's Curious School Of The Wild

Outdoors and lockdown rules (OR can you only go out if you have a scotch egg on a Wednesday?)

What are we allowed to do outdoors anyway? Does anyone really know? Are people lacking motivation, waiting for spring, stuck under a heav...

The gift of Second Breakfast

Of course it’s hobbits who are famous for second breakfast, that meal that you have after first breakfast and before lunch. Bilbo takes s...

New Year, new adventures?

It is that time when I might be starting to plan some adventures for the coming year. We all know it’s pretty difficult to plan ahead in ...

Poverty Proofing Outdoor Learning

Marcus Rashford has done so much to bring issues of poverty to public attention with compassion and commitment. Suddenly there is a platf...

Too poor for school?

Can you be too poor for school? Today I am reminded of a quote by Robert Walker that goes something like, “it is almost certainly the cas...

Outdoor Boom or Bust?

This Autumn has seen a massive rise in the number of participants in our outdoor groups and a huge increase of enquiries. To make up for ...

SOUP MAGIC!

Soup I have a fascination with soup. It’s simplicity, diversity, affordability and the fact that it can be easily cooked over fire makes...

Cooking Outdoors and Covid

Wild cooking, eating and sharing -during covid restrictions It has become obvious that some outdoor practitioners who were super happy to...

Food Poverty Outdoors

A remarkable thing happened this week. Marcus Rashford a young black footballer wrote an open letter to the government concerning holida...

What's in my pocket?

When you do this job-the outdoor nature based job-it’s too easy to forget how much you have learned and how much you think you know. Not...

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