How outdoor learning and play improve attainment
Learning Through Landscapes share how outdoor learning and play improve pupil attainment, why teaching outdoors actually enriches the curriculum, and what they are doing to help educators harness the benefits of the outdoor classroom. Why not browse LTL’s free outdoor learning ideas?
Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised
This article in the Guardian (16 June 2024) shares how science research on specific benefits for children’s behaviour and thinking is catching up with established wellbeing claims.
Piloting a Transformative Evaluation approach – with an East Ayrshire P6 class and teacher
Read about a transformative evaluation approach that captures the impact of learning outdoors. The John Muir Award is used to inspire action for wild places, and narrow the poverty related attainment gap through improving young people’s health, literacy, and numeracy. You can also find the school case study here.
Outdoor learning has improved our pupils’ attainment
This TES news article (25 June 2021) by head teacher Jay Helbert, shares how a strong ethos of outdoor learning has been a big part of the solution to the damaging impact of Covid lockdowns at Inveraray primary school in Argyll. Practice includes outdoor learning to deliver formal learning across [...]
