Harry Scott

we rely on Papatūānuku, we rely on the whenua, we need that connection.

And, you know, without going down it too bad, like it's the

environmental side of things at the moment is is looking pretty bad you know we're kind of hopefully i feel like we're at a point where we're turning the corner in terms of how we treat our planet um but if we don't teach our kids at grassroots

to love it, and if we don't teach them how to have a connection with it, how, without sounding too hippie, like without being able to go into the ngahere and to connect and heal and everything that it can offer us, we're going to have a pretty bleak-looking Aotearoa.

Yeah, yeah, totally.

Because I think...

You can teach maths, you can teach English, art, history, science.

You don't have to teach it in the classroom.

It's very possible, and again, this comes with the clause of I'm not a teacher, but I'm doing it in schools alongside teachers, you know, where we're teaching those curricula, sorry, not we, the teacher is teaching those curriculum areas and I'm helping to facilitate it happen outside.

Yeah, like there's one primary that I've been really lucky they were the first school that took me on and I've been there every Friday ever since.

You know, so these kids that I started with in year zero are now these year sixes.

And there is, like, it's been so cool to watch some of these kids that I'm, like, literally remember them bawling their eyes out because they were just terrified of coming into the bush.

And now they're these kids that are, like, in there at lunchtime.

They're making huts.

They're getting muddy.

You know, they're just so connected to it.

And it's also with, like, the...

neurodivergent kids so many times I get teachers come oh okay you've just got we just need to watch out for this one you know he's just ADHD is on the high today or or ASD or whatever

you're like okay you sure you know we'll keep an eye on them that's all good and you get down in there and the teacher's like oh my god they're a different kid because it's a space that's they're not contained by they're not you know there's no

rule you know really structured rules right and they just are able to exist with everyone else and have this really amazing quite regulated experience um and so many times it's like those kids that teachers go we're just going to have to keep an eye on them or if we're going to have trouble it's going to be because of this one they are the kids that are like