The Learning Landscape
Pupils from Wallace Hall Academy show us how their local landscape has truly become their outdoor classroom. Award-winning photographer Colin Prior reveals some simple tips to help capture great photographs in the outdoors. Landscape photographer Colin Prior provides some of the helpful tips and tools you need to capture great photographs.
The Queensberry Estate sits in the valley of the River Nith in Dumfriesshire. At its centre is Drumlanrig Castle, a Renaissance mansion built in late 17th Century.
The Queensberry Initiative allows students from local schools access to the Queensberry Estate in Dumfriesshire. Students from Wallace Hall Academy in Thornhill demonstrate the range of outdoor learning activities they take part in on the estate.
Dumfries and Galloway Group
Dumfries and Galloway is one of Scotland’s 32 unitary council areas. It was created in 1975 by uniting the historic region of Galloway to the County of Dumfries for the purpose of council administration.
To the north, the council borders South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east Scottish Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England.
