Further Reading
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Lack of woodland access is a national tragedy for younger generations https://www.daynurseries.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1562390/lack-of-woodland-access-is
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Project Wild thing (2013) Dir: David Bond -Video available on Amazon Prime 79 minutes​
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Improving children’s access to nature starts with addressing inequality auth Anna Leach https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2018/mar/01/improving-childrens-access-nature-addressing-inequality-bame-low-income-backgrounds
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Forest schools: fires, trees and mud pies, author:Patrick Barkham https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/dec/09/the-school-in-the-woods-outdoor-education-modern-britain
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Health and Wellbeing
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How Does Nature Impact Our Wellbeing? https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/enhance-your-wellbeing/environment/nature-and-us/how-does-nature-impact-our-wellbeing
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Rooted woodland project aims to boost teenage girls mental health and wellbeing https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/16900768.rooted-woodland-project-aims-to-boost-teenage-girls-mental-health-and-wellbeing/
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Eco-therapy helping to improve mental health of patients
https://wales247.co.uk/eco-therapy-helping-to-improve-mental-health-of-patients/#ixzz5Skm89F1S
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Nature and Mental Health https://www.mind.org.uk/media/23671047/nature-and-mental-health-2018.pdf
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How we can promote early language development in the outdoors- by Speech and Language Therapists. http://twinkleboost.com/twinkleboost-blog/the-great-outdoors
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Living close to nature and spending time outside has significant and wide-ranging health benefits - according to new research from the University of East Anglia. https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/it-s-official-spending-time-outside-is-good-for-you
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Book: The Lost Words, author Robert MacFarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris
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Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children.
They disappeared so quietly that at first almost no one noticed - until one day, they were gone.
But there is an old kind of magic for finding what is missing, and for summoning what has vanished. If the right spells are spoken, the lost words might return...
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Robert Macfarlane – the author of the extraordinary bestseller Landmarks– and acclaimed artist Jackie Morris, who lives and breathes the natural world like almost no other, have combined their equally extraordinary talents to produce something stunning in the world of children's literature.
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The Lost Words is a very special illustrated collection of spell-poems to re-wild the language of children. All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world - Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's mind's.
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