Getting Ready for Spring in the Garden

Getting Ready for Spring in the Garden

Day by day, dawn is rising ever earlier and dusk descending a little later. Daylight hours are on the up and if you brave the elements and take a stroll around your garden, you will find that nature’s pioneers are already leading the way into spring.  Snowdrops are...
Spring is on its way…..

Spring is on its way…..

…..So why not plan to incorporate your very own springwatch into this term’s lesson plan, and kick off the New Year with a commitment to teaching more in the Great Outdoors? Already the days are drawing out and January is almost over. Whilst spring does not officially...
The Capita Early Years Provision Conference

The Capita Early Years Provision Conference

At a time when the baby boom is in full swing and the Government are increasingly looking to the Early Years sector to address the issue of inequality of opportunity to fully develop every child’s potential, it is an incredibly exciting and dynamic time in which to be...
Is your New Year Resolution to keep fit?

Is your New Year Resolution to keep fit?

Amongst the top 50 New Year resolutions are a desire to learn to knit, to break a world record and to have cosmetic surgery. But assuming you are not planning on radical facial reconstruction, followed by a prolonged recovery period during which you attempt to knit...
The Funny Things Kids Say at Christmas

The Funny Things Kids Say at Christmas

The Learning Escape team know all too well what a busy time of year this is for teachers, so thought we’d offer some light relief, gathering together some of the funniest stories about children and their thoughts about Christmas. At a nativity play our young...
Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas

It hardly seems possible that another whole year is almost over, but we are most definitely hurtling towards 2015 with that lightning fast rapidity that the countdown to Christmas always creates. We hope that 2014 has been good to you all…we at the Garden Escape have...