The Nature of Scotland â Autumn 2011 â Issue 13

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1 The power of natural play 8 The Nature of Scotland
Adventurous natural play is something that every Scottish school needs to think about, according to Alastair Seaman from Grounds for Learning If you love nature, it’s likely that you spent a lot of time playing outdoors as a child. That’s the conclusion of researchers who have been exploring the childhood factors that shape adult attitudes to nature. This should provide us all with serious cause for concern, because we know that today’s children spend only half the time playing outdoors that their parents did, and fewer than 10% of children now play outdoors regularly in natural spaces. The implications for Scotland’s nature are obvious and concerning, which is why SNH partner, Grounds for Learning (GfL), are trialling innovative approaches to providing natural play in schools. Eight urban primary schools in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire have introduced a range of natural features for play, with the support of GfL and funding from Inspiring Scotland. Some of these are large-scale and structural – they involve digging up tarmac, reprofiling flat areas to create hillocks and dips, creating naturally playful surfaces with sand, bark and pebbles, or planting shrubby areas to hide in and trees that one day can be climbed. Other approaches involve introducing large-scale natural elements – such as boulders and tree trunks for clambering and balancing on – and in one school a huge dead tree has been sunk into the ground to create a fantastic natural climbing frame. Simpler still, other schools have been discovering the rich play 2 1 A survey has revealed that 20% of British children have never climbed a tree. 2 Using a natural hillock to take a running jump. www.snh.gov.uk 9
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