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- Outdoor learning isn’t a subject or topic; it’s a way of teaching.
- It can deliver a wide range of associated benefits, including promoting children’s social and emotional skills and their engagement with learning.
- Sustainable approaches to outdoor learning in schools.
- Enabling schools to deliver outdoor learning themselves, as part of everyday teaching.
- Natural Connections
- Competing pressures mean that opportunities for children and young people to value and enjoy nature and the environment are under threat.
- According to the Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment Survey, in an average month in 2013-14 only 8% of all children in England (aged 5-16) visited natural environments with their schools.
- These trends are undoubtedly contributing to major challenges facing society today, such as the rise in childhood obesity, mental health issues, and the struggle to build a sense of place and community.
- Yet evidence shows that giving children the opportunity to discover, learn about and experience the natural world is hugely important - it can help create a sense of belonging rooted in their local environment, enhancing their health, wellbeing and educational outcomes.
- For example, greater amounts of natural space in or around living or learning environments is associated with higher levels of physical activity, better emotional, behavioural and cognitive outcomes and with children developing a greater sense of connectedness to nature.
- Engagement in learning and academic achievement Better motor skills and increased levels of physical activity Improved mental health and wellbeing Improvement in behaviour and attendance rates Fostering pride, belonging and involvement in the community
- Enjoyment of lessons (95%) Engagement with and understanding of nature (94%) Social skills (93%) Engagement with learning (92%) Health and wellbeing (92%) Behaviour (85%) Attainment (57%)
- Benefits for Students
- Inspiring Creativity
- Supporting Particular Concepts
- Providing experience and wonder
- Character
- Confidence and self esteem
- Engagement with learning
- Behaviour
- Enjoyment
- Attainment
- Benefits for Teachers
- Teaching practice
- Health and wellbeing
- Professional development
- Job satisfaction
- Benefits for pupils, including greater engagement with learning, enjoyment of lessons, and delivery of health, wellbeing and character outcomes. Benefits for teachers, including positive impacts on teaching practice, professional development and skills, health and wellbeing, and job satisfaction.
- Getting everyone on board with outdoor learning
- Seeing
- Doing
- Integrating
- Increasing Frequency
- Documenting and Embedding
- Sharing Success
- Celebrating
- Collaboration and Networking
- Developing school grounds and making use of local spaces.
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