Check out the great photos and article about the many benefits of Brown Hill Kindergarten's Bush Kinder Program in The Courier: (Saturday 12 May, 2018). Images by Kate Healy, The Courier. Here is an excerpt of the article:

'Running free: the green benefits (and fun) of bush kinder

Michelle Smith

At bush kinder the children play with sticks, jump in puddles, climb trees, scramble around logs, dig in the mud and all the things that risk-averse parents usually say no to.

And research says it’s doing their mental health, physical health and education the world of good, in addition to building the next generation of nature lovers and the environmentalists of the future.

Ballarat’s Brown Hill Kindergarten pioneered bush kinder under its educational leader Christine Sullivan, and every week the kinder pupils spend one of their four-hour sessions in a large tract of bushland along the Yarrowee River a short walk from their centre.'

Read more in The Courier.