Outdoor learning

“Teaching should address the whole child; heads, hands and heart”

Steiner

EYFS take part in planned Outdoor Learning sessions once a week. In Key Stage One, these sessions take place once or twice every half term. The content of all our outdoor learning sessions is based on the topic the children are currently learning and we are lucky enough to have our very own forest on site for the children to explore.

Outdoor Learning encourages children to explore their own innate learning in the richest classroom we have - nature. It sets learning in a different context for children where they can undertake a range of practical activities and carry out small achievable tasks. It promotes sensory child-led outdoor play, encouraging and stimulating curiosity and absorption. Much of the learning for a child comes as a result of the opportunities they have for testing their own abilities in a real life context and we encourage our children to play, explore and learn outdoors as often as possible.

“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul”

Frobe

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