Healing Hooves

08/25/2025

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08/14/2025

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08/14/2025

YES!!!

It may seem radical to send children outdoors year-round in rain, frost or sunshine, but an increasing number of parents are doing just that.

In a time of digital distraction and rising anxiety levels, outdoor schooling offers something many people want for their kids – slow, grounded learning rooted in the rhythms of nature.

“If we only teach children to go outside on sunny days, then we teach them to only look forward to those days. That’s not very good for anyone’s mental health," says Louise Nelson, principal of the Outdoor Primary School.

Nelson will open the school's doors for the first time this September in Greystones, Co Wicklow.

Students will learn the skills of the Irish national curriculum but with a key difference – they’ll be learning outdoors. It’s the first school of its kind in the State.

“Any lesson that can be taught indoors, you can do outside as well,” says Nelson. “You can do maths outside with pine cones for example. And the weather is just another teachable resource.

"While working in conventional primary schools in the past, I’ve had sixth class kids come to school in February wearing thin hoodies and ankle socks and then wonder why they’re freezing at break time on the yard, turning blue.

“And by contrast, at an outdoor creche I worked in, I’ve also seen kids react to rain by just getting their coats and going back out to play, without being told to do so. They’ve learned that’s what you do. It’s not an issue.”

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06/06/2025

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Nevada Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation’s free summer camps offers job training and life skills to teens and young adults with disabilities.

06/05/2025

Join us in our last Play Day before the heat arrives.

05/16/2025

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✨ Check out the scheduled times for each of our amazing presenters at the upcoming Wellness Workshop!

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05/06/2025

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05/05/2025

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