Happy Friday everyone! We hope you have all had a good first, full week back in what is another very strange term.  We have been so impressed by all of the fantastic examples of remote learning that we have been seeing on Glow and Twitter.

Next week, we have a fantastic webinar coming up on Tuesday evening at 4pm.  ‘Making the most of your John Muir Award” will be lead by our partners at the John Muir Trust, including our East Ayrshire LOST member, Lorna Sloan.

This webinar will give you some top tips on completing your proposal form, share new activity ideas for the Four Challenges and you will find out about how you can use the Award for progression or with different audiences.

You can sign up for this webinar and others by visiting our Webinars page.

You can also keep your CPD up to date, even in lockdown, by visiting our Professional Development page, where you will find a range of different options for any stage in your outdoor learning journey.

It’s time for us to share some of the fantastic resources that we have on our website with you.  All of our resources are suitable or easily adapted to remote learning.

Tiny Treasure Hunt

A Tiny Treasure Hunt is a fantastic way to explore the Numeracy and Mathematics of everyday objects and develop young children’s mathematical vocabulary. This is a hands on, fun activity where the aim is collect as many tiny objects as you can but make sure that you can fit all of them into your ‘treasure chest’ at the same time!

For teachers, this activity can be used to help deliver Es and Os in the CfE MNU curriculum at Early Level in Number, Money and Measure, with potential discussions around counting, size, weight and pattern.

Have a look at our website here to find out more. This activity and more can be found in our newsletter, which you can sign up for here.

Today, we have published our first newsletter of 2021, which is full of remote learning lesson plans across Curriculum for Excellence levels, advice for taking learning outdoors remotely, information from our partners and CPD webinar dates for your diary.

You can sign up for our newsletter here which will mean it will be delivered to your email inbox every Wednesday morning.  If you have missed any of our past newsletters you can catch up here.

Today, we are very excited to launch our brand new teaching resource and online careers event – Working in Wellies.

This is a supporting resource following on from the successful ‘Women in Wellies’ event held by LOST  in partnership with Dumfries House and RHET (Royal Highland Educational Trust) and the subsequent ‘How To’ toolkit resource.  The event and toolkit are funded and supported by Education Scotland’s Enhancing Professional Learning in STEM Grants Programme through the Scottish Government STEM Education and training Strategy.

Our online event aims to engage and connect teachers and students with professionals working across a variety of STEM and rural sectors.  Through a structured lesson plan and by using our suite of resources including an interactive pupil passport and 2 minute career talk videos, teachers can support pupils to explore the different roles and career pathways, consider how these could apply to their lives and ambitions and begin to make informed choices about their future.

Find out more about the event and how you to carry it out with your class by visiting the Working in Wellies Careers Event page.

Today is World Oceans Day and to celebrate, we have shared some clips of early, primary and secondary education establishments in East Ayrshire exploring Scotland’s seas.  We hope that together we can #ProtectOurHome.

This video (and others!) can be found on our Videos We Love page.

You can find more information and activities around this event on the World Oceans Day resource page.  The link is also on our Websites for Support page.

Today the second issue of our newsletter was published.

Follow the link below to see all that has been included, from activities and videos to advice for taking learning outdoors to professional development.

LOST Newsletter #2

If you would like to sign up to the newsletter, then please do so by visiting the link below:

LOST Newsletter Sign Up Page

It is now June and we can’t quite believe it here at LOST.

June for us usually signals the busy period of Big School Sleepout and DofE expeditions, but it is also the start of 30 Days Wild from The Wildlife Trusts.

This is an annual event which challenges you to do ones simple ‘Random Act of Wildness’ per day for your health and wellbeing but also for nature and the planet.

By visiting the website you can sign up to get a free downloadable pack of goodies to help plan your month and inspire you with wild ideas.

To get involved, visit the website using the link above to sign up.  You can sign up individually or as a school or childminder.

Connect with us by visiting our @eaclost Twitter page to see what wild activities our staff try!

Today, our brand new newsletter has gone live!

Filled to the brim with new resources, lessons and information for teachers and practitioners, issue 1 can be read here: LOST Newsletter #1

If you would like to receive these weekly newsletters straight to your inbox, then please sign up by visiting the link below:

LOST Newsletter Sign Up Page

As part of our developing online CPD resources, we have collated an ‘online library’ of book suggestions which we think that teachers, practitioners and those with a love of the outdoors might find useful.  There is a wide selection of books from those about the outdoors, adventure and nature, to outdoor learning, the policy behind it and how it can be implemented and wider educational theory books.

You can find the list here: Books To Read

Our team will be adding to this as time goes on, and of course, we would love to hear from you if you have any suggestions of books to share with others.