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

Kids in nature Bruny Island

Connecting with Nature happens early on Bruny Island

When asked what is so special about living on Bruny it is no surprise that many of the Prep/1 class refer to some aspect of nature as being the reason...
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Underwater adventures Bruny

Exploring Freedom- Supergroms go snorkelling

“It feels like to be free. Like freedom under the water. Like exploring freedom!” Franziska vividly sums up the way many of us feel when we go snorkel...
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Pardalote Day Dan Broun

Bruny Kids - Nature webpage project

The Bruny Kids webpage is an exciting new project that aims to provide a platform for younger writers to be showcased, and to support children’s conne...
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Wombats in woolly jumpers by Grade 2 and 3 Bruny Island kids

Do wombats wear woolly jumpers in winter?

A group of Bruny Island District School kids recently imagined Winter Wombats Wearing Woolly Jumpers and came up with some stunning artworks.  As wint...
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Supergroms Bruny Island

Supergroms Cleanup at Alonnah

The Cloudy Bay Supergroms did a beach cleanup at Alonnah. We drove to the Dray Track and walked to the rocky beach where we found HEAPS of rubbish lik...
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Bees T Illy aged 7

World Bee Day: Science and outdoor learning go together like bees and honey

Young minds are innately curious about the world around them. So much is new, exciting, miraculous! And so it proved at World Bee Day on Bruny Island
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Swift Parrots on Bruny Ben C

Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - One Day, written by Frankie Gurr, aged 6. 
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Supergroms celebrating culture on Bruny 3

Connection to Country with Danny Gardner

"When we have these workshops, these kids become our allies. And doing this, it helps close the gap. It helps people have a better understanding of Ab...
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Forty Spotted Pardalote on Bruny Kim Murray

Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry- The Pardalote written by Heath McCluskey aged 9
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Wonderful photo of Forty Spotted Pardalote Kim Murray

Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - written by Martha Cunningham age 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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Wedge tailed Eagle Dan Broun

Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry- Wedge-tailed Eagles by Trinity, aged 10
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