by Lawson Foundation | Nov 29, 2017 | Guest Blog Series, Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy, Update
This past spring I had the opportunity to deliver a Forest and Nature School Practitioners’ Course in partnership with Kenjgewin Teg at M’Chigeeng First Nation, on Mnidoo Mnising Manitoulin Island. Leading up to this course we had been working with the Executive...
by Lawson Foundation | Apr 26, 2017 | Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy
Last June on my outdoor play tour of London, England, I was really pleased to meet a passionate and dedicated forest school educator who is a realist. She told me: “It’s all fine and well to say there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing, but that’s just...
by Christine Alden | Sep 21, 2016 | Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy, Update
In June, I had the great fortune to spend three days in London, England hosted by Tim Gill to visit outdoor play programs and sites around the city and in nearby Bristol. I visited a breadth of children’s outdoor play opportunities including forest school, early...
by Christine Alden | Jan 7, 2016 | Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy
Today marks an exciting day as we launch our Outdoor Play Strategy and announces 14 newly funded outdoor play projects and an evaluation to capture the learning. The Outdoor Play Strategy aims to increase children’s opportunities for self-directed play outdoors in all...
by Christine Alden | Jan 7, 2016 | Healthy Active Children, Outdoor Play Strategy, Update
[version française] It’s a great pleasure to be announcing the Lawson Foundation’s Outdoor Play Strategy and sharing the news about the newly funded projects! The Foundation believes children’s outdoor play merits a substantial investment in projects that will help us...
by Christine Alden | Jul 22, 2015 | Healthy Active Children, Outdoor Play Strategy, Update
Going into this 2015 Active Outdoor Play Funding Opportunity, it was impossible to anticipate the volume of interest it would elicit. But the incredible media uptake and public reaction to the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play and the 2015 ParticipACTION...
