Out and About provides outdoor learning resources like a shed full of equipment, shelter, and a secret garden with logs, trees and a pond for children. Each class spends at least half a day outside each week for their learning, with teachers being led by the children rather than overplanning sessions. A range of outdoor resources are made easily accessible to support learning in the great outdoors regardless of weather.
2. We provide a shed full of
resources, a shelter, den
building equipment and
we have a ‘secret garden’
with logs, trees and a
pond.
We ask teachers to not
over plan these sessions,
but instead be led by the
children.
Out and About
In order to support the well-being
of our children, and in recognition
that learning happens in different
places and in different ways, each
class takes their learning outside
for at least half a day each week.
Learning in the great outdoors (whatever
the weather)…
5. A range of resources are easily
accessible to use outside.
6. …show the effect of an
insect bite.
Using ‘bits and pieces’ to
share a story and…
Editor's Notes
We wanted our children to spend more time taking their learning outside. In order to ensure that this happened we timetable every class to be outside for half a day each week. We provide a shed full of resources, a shelter, den building equipment and we have a ‘secret garden’ with logs, trees and a pond.
We ask teachers to not over plan these sessions, but instead be led by the children. At first this was difficult. When ordinarily constrained by four walls it’s possible to always be in communication with the children and it’s possible to always know what they are doing – well mostly. Teachers have had to let go and allow the children to explore, become self-motivated and independent learners.
We wanted our children to spend more time taking their learning outside. In order to ensure that this happened we timetable every class to be outside for half a day each week. We provide a shed full of resources, a shelter, den building equipment and we have a ‘secret garden’ with logs, trees and a pond.
We ask teachers to not over plan these sessions, but instead be led by the children. At first this was difficult. When ordinarily constrained by four walls it’s possible to always be in communication with the children and it’s possible to always know what they are doing – well mostly. Teachers have had to let go and allow the children to explore, become self-motivated and independent learners.
