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 insectsinterconnection / 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