interconnection

'The Wind Snake is shaking the trees. The Wind Snake is throwing me! We can’t see the Wind Snake, but we can feel it.’

An (age 6) / project: Sensing the forest

‘He’s calm and I’m calm. He’s saying ‘I’m the King of the world!’ He has a very little heart because he has a very little body. I wish he could talk. She wants to hug. She’s pointing where she wants to go. Can I sit on the sofa with her?’

Wells (age 5) / project: Meeting the stick insects

interconnection / valuing divergence

  • welcoming multiple and contrasting perspectives

  • building projects from unconventional thinking

  • recognising and respecting how different brains and bodies work

  • creating a range of ways to engage in shared research

  • developing many languages of expression

interconnection / individual, collective

  • experiencing the many sides of ourselves

  • making connections to people around us

  • contributing to knowledge-building groups

  • working with shared purpose

  • shaping a creative culture

  • growing through partnerships and exchanges

interconnection / the more than human

interconnection / learning through the senses

  • learning that human life depends on the wider living world

  • exploring complex and reciprocal networks

  • considering the ways in which water, air and land are alive

  • encountering and imagining multi-species perspectives

  • balancing curiosity with care

  • developing ways of knowing through touch, sound, smell, taste

  • fine-tuning our vision to notice and understand detail

  • deepening our relationships with tiny, quiet, subtle forms of life

  • learning through the body and movement

  • integrating contrasting ways of learning