Bruny Kids & Nature

Bruny Kids & Nature

About Bruny Kids & Nature

The Bruny Kids & Nature page is a home for articles, stories and events about, by and for kids who connect with Nature on Bruny Island

Background

Childhood connection with Nature is critically important for health, development, happiness and the pure joy of understanding, seeing and experiencing the wonders of the world around us.

The Bruny kids and Nature page is a home for stories, events, things to do and articles about kids connecting with, learning about and experiencing the joy of Nature on Bruny Island.

This page includes articles and stories written by a range of writers and authors, and includes articles written by kids themselves (with parental permission). The page is managed by educators, writers and parents of kids who have a connection to Bruny Island.

The Bruny Kids webpage project is being coordinated by Bruny Island teacher, Claire Boost. Claire runs Bush Lil (a Launching into Learning Program for children aged 0-4), and is helping to establish an Outdoor Classroom at Bruny Island District School. 

If you or your kid would like an article or story published on this page, just send it through to Bruny Island teacher Claire Boost at: claire@kuno.earth

The Bruny Kids webpage project is proudly supported by the Kuno Foundation and Tasmanian Community Fund. 


Community by Bruny Kids & Nature

Claire Boost

Claire is a Bruny Island teacher who has been educating in, about and for the environment for over 20 years. Claire currently runs Bush LIL, is helping establish an outdoor classroom, and coordinates the Bruny kids webpage project.
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Jess Ewing

Jess is a nature lover and artist. She enjoys spending time outdoors, bushwalking and gardening. 
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Phill Pullinger

Phill is a GP, conservationist, author of Tarkine Trails, and co-founder of Kuno. Phill has broad expertise and a long held passionate commitment to the natural world.
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Articles by Bruny Kids & Nature

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Adventures at "Chock Rock"

Bruny Island off the South-East Coast of Tasmania holds an exquisitely intact marine ecosystem. This short film supported by the Bruny Kids and Nature...
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Palawa Cultural Workshop: Danny Gardner & Cloudy Bay Supergroms

A new short film by Claire Gorman captures the curiosity of the Bruny Island Supergroms as they discover and learn about connecting to the country wit...
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Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry -To Gannet written by Harriet Boyle, aged 15
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Adventure Bay - Hewn Stone Head Landscape

Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry -The last egg written by Izzy Borzak-Bell, aged 16
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Swift Parrots on Branch Rob Blakers

Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry -Love Birds, written Charlotte Murphy aged 15
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Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - Turbo by Ella Martin Howard, age 15
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Bruny kids celebrate National Threatened Species Day

In a recent film launch assembly at Bruny Island District School, a group of Grade 1 students shared what they have been learning about National Threa...
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Cloudy Bay Bruny Island Warwick Berry

Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - The Bird Explorer written by Emerie Thalmann aged 7
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Supergroms learning to surf

Cloudy Bay Supergroms-sharing a love of oceans

Watching a child play in the waves is a window into their world of unbridled joy.  Time stops as we see them marvel at this most elemental of things. ...
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Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry- All That Remains, a poem written by Erin Beard, aged 16
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Mabel Cunningham aged 9 drawing

Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry- Silver Gull Story by Mabel Cunningham, aged 9.
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Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - The Albatross, Tommy Roser age 7
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