{"id":7191,"date":"2021-03-09T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/?page_id=7191"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:47:03","slug":"greening-the-school-estate-in-east-ayrshire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/greening-the-school-estate-in-east-ayrshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Greening the School Estate in East Ayrshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning for Sustainability is embedded in Scottish Education.\u00a0 Greening the School Estate is one example of LfS in EAC schools.\u00a0 For more information, resources and links to partner organisations see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/websites-for-support-lfs-and-global-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Websites for Support &#8211; LfS and Global Citizenship.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a new initiative in East Ayrshire (begun in late 2020).\u00a0 Initially, we\u00a0 worked with 7 pilot schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Our Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>We will value, enjoy, protect and enhance the environments and communities around our schools.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Our young people will learn about the world around them.\u00a0 They will be allowed to\u00a0 connect with nature.\u00a0 They will be encouraged to be sustainable, active and healthy becoming successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Our intention is to create rich learning environments while increasing the biodiversity of our school estate.\u00a0 In doing so, we will contributing to the &#8216;rewilding&#8217; of our local communities and bring us all into greater contact with the diversity of\u00a0 nature.\u00a0 We are working with partners both within and beyond East Ayrshire Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Biodiversity is a scientific word that simply means the variety of animal and plant life in the world or a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about <strong>rewilding<\/strong> see an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnmuirtrust.org\/about\/resources\/508-rewilding-an-introduction?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhP2BBhDdARIsAJEzXlG06NKnHhXmk8VI05Ob19_qb1AkUK_6Ur9yQa-haGWeWqe130scO2saAjdPEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Introduction to Rewilding by John Muir Trust\u00a0 <\/a>and watch this fabulous film from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rewild.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Scottish Rewilding Alliance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SCOTLAND: The world\u2019s first Rewilding Nation?\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZR2sPQHUt_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t be introducing beavers and wolves to the school estate but we are making the school grounds interesting for a wide range of\u00a0 growing things, wildlife and people!<\/p>\n<p>The Greening the Estate project has 3 themes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/sustainable-food-growing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sustainable Food Growing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/rewilding-nature-growing-for-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rewilding Nature \u2013 Growing for Wildlife\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/rewilding-young-people-adventure-and-exploration-outdoors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rewilding Young People \u2013 Adventure and Exploration Outdoors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each of the links above will take you to further description of the outcomes for each theme,\u00a0 links to resources and further inspiration.\u00a0 This is a work in progress and new material is being added all the time.\u00a0 Our aim is to create a bank of resources for use in our pilot schools and in any other establishment developing a rich learning environment outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning for Sustainability is embedded in Scottish Education.\u00a0 Greening the School Estate is one example of LfS in EAC schools.\u00a0 For more information, resources and links to partner organisations see Websites for Support &#8211; LfS and Global Citizenship. This is a new initiative in East Ayrshire (begun in late 2020).\u00a0 Initially, we\u00a0 worked with 7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/greening-the-school-estate-in-east-ayrshire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greening the School Estate in East Ayrshire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20798,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7191\/revisions\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}