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Learning at Home Resources

January 6, 2021 Mrs Conquer Leave a comment

Welcome back everyone! We hope you have had a restful (if very different to usual) Christmas break.

We realise that the latest news and changes have thrown everyone’s planning up in the air but we hope the Learning Outdoors Support Team can provide you with support for your Learning at Home planning and delivery.

Learning Resources on the EAC LOST website

Here on our LOST website, you can find resources for pupils both Learning at Home and Learning at School across all curricular areas. You will find lesson plans and activities listed according to CfE level and stage. We are continually adding materials and home learning suggestions.

The Learning at Home pages provide links to both stand alone activities and to IDL topics based on texts suitable for learners working from Early to Second Level. The activities in each IDL topic have been specifically designed so that they can be completed using items commonly found at home and, though the topics are based on picture books and novels, many of the activities can be completed without using the texts and, where possible, we have included links to video readings of the books.

IDL Topic Resources available for Loan

We have a limited number of copies of the IDL topic novels which we can lend to classes working from home. If you are working at a current or previous COACh school you will already have 10 copies of each story in your COACh resource boxes.

EAC LOST Newsletter

Our Newsletter goes out every Wednesday. You can subscribe using the link here: Sign up

The newsletter is delivered directly to your inbox providing you with updates on new resources, dates for your diary, webinar details and further inspiration. The newsletter is a team production with contributions from the COACh team and our strategic partners. To see previous Newsletters visit here.

EAC LOST Webinars

Our programme of webinars continues and covers a wide variety of topics including Maths in the Outdoors, Developing School Grounds for Learning and STEM by Nature. Many of the sessions are presented by the LOST team and we are very excited to be hosting a sequence of sessions from Eco Schools Scotland. Find out more here!

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if there is anything we can do to further support your work. Aly and Carolyn can be contacted using the following emails:

alyson.conquer@eastayrshire.org.uk

and

carolyn.mcrfarlane@eastayrshire.org.uk

Take care and stay safe.

CPD, Fun, Homeschooling, Play

Outdoor Learning Updates – April 2020

April 28, 2020 Mrs Conquer Leave a comment

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all doing well, staying safe and enjoying spending time with your families.

We have been working hard over the last month to populate our website with lots of fun activities for you to do indoors and outdoors at home. The activities shared aim to cover all the different curricular areas, an awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, adventure, growing and planting, learning new skills, play and of course, fun!

Some examples of activities that we have already uploaded are:

Create a Character

How Tall is that Tree?

Go on a Minibeast Hunt

We have also uploaded literacy and numeracy lessons for early to second level for teachers and children working within the East Ayrshire Hub schools.

We have started a YouTube page which is constantly being updated with different videos to supplement and extend the activities on our website. You can subscribe to it and be notified when we post something new!

LOST EAC YouTube

As always, we are active on Twitter and Facebook but we now have a brand new Instagram page too, where you can see more of our activities being shared.

You can find us @learningoutdoorssupportteam and we look forward to connecting with you there.

Of course, you can always get in touch here if there is anything you would like to see or need some help with.