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  • Out and About guidance
    • Introduction
    • What is in the guidance?
      • How can I find what I need?
      • Who am I?
    • What are we trying to achieve?
      • Why? Making the case
        • School improvement
        • Personal and social development
        • Motivation and behaviour
        • Risk, challenge and adventure
        • Well-being
        • Sense of place
        • Early years
        • Learning styles
        • Creativity, culture and the arts
    • How do we organise learning?
      • Developing LOtC Policy
      • LOtC Curriculum Planning
      • Framework for Planning LOtC experiences
        • Setting learning objectives
          • What learning outcomes are you trying to achieve?
          • Most appropriate activity
          • How do you plan a valuable learning experience?
        • Planning LOtC experiences
        • Practicalities - You can do it!
          • You can do it
          • Get ready - leaders
          • Get ready - management
          • Get ready - managing risk
          • Get ready - HASPEV
          • Get ready - parents
          • Resources
        • Who can help?
          • Other supporting bodies
        • Where and When?
          • School grounds
          • Built environment
          • Farms
          • Heritage sites
          • Arts and creativity
          • Visitor attractions
          • Field studies
          • Adventurous activities
          • Expeditions
          • Study, Sports and Cultural Tours
          • Sacred spaces
    • How well are we achieving our aims?
  • Out and About CPD Modules
    • The CPD Modules
      • Teachers
      • From curriculum to compelling learning
      • Governors, HTs and SMTs
      • Outdoor education professionals
      • EVCs
      • ITT providers and NQT coordinators
      • Early Years
  • News and events
    • News and events
      • Submit a news item
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    • News
      • Submissions
        • "Get It: The Power of Cultural Learning" - LOtC key in advancing cultural learning
        • ‘Love School Grounds’ campaign sets out to keep school grounds high on the agenda
        • Bayer/FACE Awards 2010
        • Beagle Project
        • Experiential Educational Walks
        • Get the next generation growing with the Food for Life Partnership
        • A School without barriers
        • A World Beyond the Classroom
        • 'A World Outside the Classroom' - BBC Gardeners World Live
        • Award for Thameside
        • Bean There Done That
        • Calling all STEM E&E Providers
        • College up for award
        • Continued success for Hartpury’s School Programme
        • Curriculum field trips - Its time to boldly go.....
        • DCSF consultation - Science and Learning
        • DfT THINK! Education Road Safety Website
        • Double Dare
        • Early Childhood Education
        • Edgbaston Watersports Open Day
        • Families Wanted for BBC2! Spend a week on a Victorian Farm.
        • Froglife
        • Getting out of Class
        • Growing School garden resource wins another prestigious award!
        • Kids Make Movies
        • Learning Outside the Classroom
        • LOtC is our Speciality
        • Making learning outside the classroom safe from the sun
        • Mininsters DVD on Outdoor Recreation
        • Newts Child led health and safety risk assessment
        • NEWTS success at the Education Show
        • NEWTS: Training Days and Workshops
        • Ofsted says pupils are sold short on school trips
        • Outward Bound Centre First to be awarded LOtC Quality Badge
        • Over 1000 searches made daily to find new educational visit ideas on www.ukschooltrips.co.uk
        • Pledge to get pupils out and about
        • Primary Subjects 4, Learning Outside the Classroom
        • Reminder - Primary Curriculum consultation
        • School goes european for visitors
        • School top of class for learning outside
        • School trips still deemed too risky
        • School Walkabout
        • Simply Gardening for Schools does the double
        • Sporting pupils get a taste of the high life
        • The Art of Great Teaching
        • Charging for School Activities Guidance
        • Cost of Schooling 2007
        • Ed Balls announces first organisations to get the Quality Badge
        • Great Outdoors
        • Growing Schools Year Planner - Available Early Jan 2009
        • Growing Schools' Year Planner
        • InSite: Professional Development from ‘Their Past Your Future’ at the Imperial War Museum
        • Inspirational ideas for Learning Outside the Classroom at the Best of Britain and Ireland 2009
        • Introducing: Engaging Places
        • Landscape Design in the School Environment
        • Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge
        • New Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge launched.
        • New Website Promotes Learning On The River Thames
        • BBC Breathing Places Schools
        • Becoming a teacher
        • Directors of Children's Services Get Behind the Learning Outside the Classroom Movement
        • Exciting Outdoor Places to Visit Mapped for Teachers
        • Explore at Bristol
        • Grain Chain's First Birthday
        • Growing Schools Goes Local
        • John Milton outside the classroom
        • London School Grounds to be Improved by John Laing Charitable Trust Awards
        • More School Trips Than Ever Before
        • Natural History Museum Teacher Panel
        • New Sacred Space website now online
        • New Sustainable Schools resources
        • Newts: Child Led Health and Safety/Risk Assessment
        • Ofsted HMI Learning Outside the Classroom report
        • Outdoor Education Advisers’ Panel launches the Outdoor Learning Card training scheme
        • Playgroup in finals for outdoor awards
        • Regional Learning Outside the Classroom Conferences
        • RHS Learning Centre and Library
        • Safeside - Open for Business
        • School gets pupils out of the classroom and into the outdoors
        • School trips 'not optional extra'
        • Science Museum Learning - Teachers Courses
        • Seeds for Schools
        • Simply Gardening for Schools
        • Somerset Children's University
        • The Big Science Read
        • The Great Outdoors - photography competition
        • The HandsOnScotland Website
        • The Open Lock Project
        • The Strategic Commissioning, Workforce Skills Development Programme is open for applications
        • Training Website for Outdoor Learning Professionals Launched
        • Wandsworth Prison and the Great Garden Tools for Schools Giveaway
        • Nick Rebbeck given the Welsh Organic Farming Award 2008
        • West Yorkshire LOtC Network Meeting
        • Win a visit to NASA Space Centre for 12 students
        • Win an original architectural drawing
        • Year of Food and Farming reconnects pupils with the food chain
        • Year of Food and Farming - What Next?
    • Events
      • Event Library
      • CLOtC Events 2010
      • Submissions
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Activity Point: Birds - the Natural History Museum
        • Adventure in Outdoor Learning & Professional Development Conference
        • African jewellery workshop
        • African pottery workshop
        • African t-shirt printing workshop
        • An Introduction to Storytelling
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Animal Vision - the Natural History Museum
        • Annie Darwin puppet workshop - The Natural History Musuem
        • Annie Darwin puppet workshop - The Natural History Musuem
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - the Natural History Museum
        • Busy Bee gallery puppet character - The Natural History Museum
        • Busy Bee gallery puppet character - The Natural History Museum
        • Busy Bee gallery puppet character - The Natural History Museum
        • Busy Bee gallery puppet character - The Natural History Museum
        • Busy Bee gallery puppet character - The Natural History Museum
        • Busy Bee gallery puppet character - The Natural History Museum
        • Comic storytelling workshop
        • Comic storytelling workshop
        • Designs for learning: Transforming outdoor spaces for education
        • Develop your core skills
        • Digital discovery activities
        • Digital discovery activities
        • Digital discovery activities
        • Digital discovery activities
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dino-Scientists
        • Dragon tales
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Lab - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Science Fair - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Science Show - Rocks the House - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Science Show - Rocks the House - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Science Show - Rocks the House - the Natural History Museum
        • Earth Science Show - Rocks the House - the Natural History Museum
        • Educational Visits Coordinator training
        • Egypt Explorers
        • Egypt Explorers
        • Emotional Literacy in the outdoors
        • Every Chicken Matters
        • Every Chicken Matters
        • Fire & Fun for Forest School Leaders
        • Forest Skills
        • Gallery Characters - Charles Darwin - The Natural History Museum
        • Gallery Characters - Circadian Sam - The Natural History Museum
        • Gallery Characters - Circadian Sam - The Natural History Museum
        • Gallery Characters - Dino Dan - The Natural History Museum
        • Gallery Characters - Dino Dan - The Natural History Museum
        • Gallery Characters - Dino Dan - The Natural History Museum
        • Gallery Characters - Dino Dan - The Natural History Museum
        • Gallery Characters - Mary Anning - The Natural History Musuem
        • Gallery Characters - Mary Anning - The Natural History Musuem
        • Great Plant Hunt Week
        • Greeks alive! animation workshop
        • Green screen time machine: West Africa
        • Growing Up Outdoors the next steps: children's health and the outdoors
        • CLOtC National Conference
        • GO SHOW!: Brighton Jubilee Library
        • Half-term activities: West African wonders
        • Half-term activities: West African wonders
        • Half-term activities: West African wonders
        • Half-term activities: West African wonders
        • Horrible Histories™ visits the British Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are? - the Natural History Museum
        • Investigate Centre
        • Islamic tile painting
        • Leading Earthwalks Day
        • Learning Stories, Learning Styles
        • London Street Markets Walk
        • London Street Markets Walks
        • Make a magical mosaic
        • Make a magical mosaic
        • Make a mismatch creature
        • Making Play Structures at Forest School
        • Meet the father of numbers
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - the Natural History Museum
        • Mesopotamian myths
        • More Children in the Woods - Forest School Conference 2010
        • Mummify yourself: animation workshop
        • Mummify yourself: animation workshop
        • Norouz: Persian New Year
        • Norouz: Persian New Year
        • northmoor trust lambing weekends
        • northmoor trust lambing weekends
        • Off-Site Safety Management (OSSM) course
        • Online Discussion on HASLOC
        • Opening All the Gates
        • Promoting LOtC through Environmental Partnerships
        • 2 Day Outdoor Learning Event and Conference
        • Animal Vision - Natural History Museum
        • Badging, Adventure, Safety and Quality
        • BBC Gardeners World Live
        • Best of Britain & Ireland
        • Big Draw Shire Hall Gallery
        • Biology AS and A-Level day - Natural History Museum
        • Bristol BioBlitz
        • Bristol Festival of Nature
        • British Activity Holiday Association Conference
        • Carnival at Eureka! The National Children's Museum
        • Chemistry AS and A-Level day - Natual History Museum
        • Childrens’ Gardening Activity Day
        • Come Out to Play!
        • Creating a sense of place through fieldwork
        • Developing Farm Based Education
        • Developing Farm Based Education - Ashlyn's Farm
        • Developing Farm Based Education Hainey Farm
        • Developing Farm Based Education Astley Farm
        • Developing Farm based Education Rowley Farm
        • Dino-Scientists - Natual History Museum
        • Doing the Right Thing - Conference
        • Drop in activities - Activity Point: Birds - Natual History Museum
        • Earth Lab - Natural History Museum
        • Earth Science Show – Rocks the House - Natual History Museum
        • Earthwatch Debate: From Tsunami to Drought
        • Earthwatch Lecture: Meeting Marine Needs
        • Earthwatch Lecture – Conserving Biodiversity in the Americas
        • Earthwatch Lecture – Forests and Climate Change
        • Education Show 2008
        • Engaging Diverse Communities
        • Enriching the Vocational Curriculum - 14 November 2008
        • Explorers: Ourselves and Other Animals - Natural History Museum
        • Gallery characters - Circadian Sam - Natural History Museum
        • Gallery characters - Dino Dan - Natural History Museum
        • Gallery characters - Mary Anning - Natural History Museum
        • How Science Works at the Museum - Natural History Museum
        • Interactive film: Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak
        • Interactive film: Who Do You Think You Really Are?
        • Introduction to Outdoor Learning
        • Meet the Scientist: Research and Curation - Natural History Museum
        • Quality Badge Training Workshop
        • Quality Badge Training Workshop - Hampshire
        • Ready, steady, yuck! Make a cookery show
        • Relic: Guardians of the Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Scenario Science: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Day - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Scenario: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Scenario: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Scenario: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Science Scenario: Disease Outbreak - the Natural History Museum
        • Soundbytes podcasting workshop
        • Steve Van Matre Workshop Tour
        • Storytelling with puppets - Rapunzel / Goldilocks and the Three Bears
        • Storytelling with puppets - Wolf Tales: Little Red Riding Hood / The Three Little Pigs
        • Storytelling with puppets, Jackie and the Beanstalk - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Jackie and the Beanstalk - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Jackie and the Beanstalk - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Jackie and the Beanstalk - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Little Red Hen/Chicken Licken - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Little Red Hen/Chicken Licken - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Little Red Hen/Chicken Licken - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Little Red Hen/Chicken Licken - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, Little Red Hen/Chicken Licken - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, The Gingerbread Man and Other Stories - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, The Gingerbread Man and Other Stories - The Natural History Museum
        • Storytelling with puppets, The Gingerbread Man and Other Stories - The Natural History Museum
        • Taxonomy Day for AS and A-Level biology students - the Natural History Museum
        • The Alfred Hitchcock Walk
        • The Cutting Edge workshop - Natural History Museum
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Cutting-Edge workshop - the Natural History Musuem
        • The Egyptian Book of the Dead show
        • The Egyptian Book of the Dead show
        • The Go Show!: Hook Meadow Community Centre, Walderslade, Medway
        • The Go Show!: The Leach Pottery, Cornwall
        • The Go Show!: The Learning Centre, Duchy College, Camborne
        • The Go Show: St John's Church Hall, Purbrook, Hants
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Debate Workshop: Theory, Evidence and Darwin - the Natural History Museum
        • The Great Outdoors Photographic Competition 2010
        • The Variety Show - Natural History Museum
        • The Variety Show - the Natural History Museum
        • The Variety Show - the Natural History Museum
        • The Variety Show - the Natural History Museum
        • The Variety Show - the Natural History Museum
        • The Variety Show - the Natural History Museum
        • The Variety Show - the Natural History Museum
        • The Variety Show - the Natural History Museum
        • The Wealth of Geographical Opportunities for KS4 and A-Level on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset
        • The World Outside the Classroom
        • Theory, Evidence and Darwin - Natural History Museum
        • Wish you were here....? Learning and Teaching Outside the Classroom
        • Use Museums and Galleries to Improve Pupils' Literacy
        • Explore at Bristol
        • Explore-at-Bristol - Teacher preview evening
        • Exploring Our Woodlands - St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff
        • Get Organ-ised
        • Growing Schools - Training Events for teachers
        • Growing Up Outdoors Conference
        • Heritage project exhibition launch day
        • Heritage Services of the City of London Schools Programme
        • InSite – Professional Development Course for Teachers at the Imperial War Museum, London
        • Keeping animals at a primary school
        • Keeping animals in an outdoor animal based learning resource
        • Keeping large farm animals at a school farm
        • Learning at ss Great Britain, Bristol
        • Learning at the National Maritime Museum – Education Open Day
        • Learning Outside the Classroom - Keeping Safe
        • Learning Outside the Classroom conference for Secondary Schools
        • Learning Outside the Classroom Debate and Marketplace
        • London Street Walks
        • Mini Museum Curators, Maidstone Museum, Kent
        • National Sustainable Schools Conference 2009
        • NEWTS: CPD, Raise Achievement Through LOtC
        • NEWTS: Teacher Training, Animals as Educators
        • Opening All the Gates - Heritage Access Seminar with The Gateway Gardens Trust
        • Outdoor Adventure Week
        • Outdoor Learning Conference
        • Photography heritage project study visit in Bratislava
        • Photography heritage project study visit in Bratislava
        • Photography heritage project study visit in Prague
        • Primary RE teachers’ conference
        • Regional Learning Outside the Classroom Conferences - April 23rd
        • Regional Learning Outside the Classroom Conferences - May 1st
        • Regional Learning Outside the Classroom Conference - April 24th
        • Regional Learning Outside the Classroom Conference - April 29th
        • Science Museum Learning – Events
        • Science Museum Learning - Teachers’ Courses
        • Shire Hall Gallery Activities World on the Wall
        • Shire Hall Gallery Activities, The Whole Truth
        • Showcomotion Children’s Conference
        • Speckled Monster Comes to Life at Thinktank
        • Super Sundays at the Museum of Reading
        • Tactile Tales - A new hands-on workshop
        • Taking Learning Outdoors
        • The Big Bang
        • The Big Science Read
        • The Bristol Festival of Nature Schools day
        • The Wallace Collection
        • Trees and Orchards
        • Insights into the Creative Industries
        • Wish you were here...? Learning and Teaching Outside the Classroom
        • Marine Industry Day
        • Wood-Land-Elements
        • Working with Challenging Behaviour in the Outdoors part 1
    • Newsletters
      • Newsletter Articles July/August
        • CLOtC update - August 2010
      • Newsletter Articles May 2010
        • Tell Us 4 Survey
    • LOtC Awards 2010
  • Case studies
    • Case studies
      • Submit a case study
      • Submissions
        • Chapeltown After School Club
        • Cross Curricular Creative Writing
        • LOtC Community Cohesion Project
        • Mind Space bringing meditation to schools
        • Record Breaking Time Travel
        • School aims for National Challenge target with outdoor learning
        • Wirral Youth Service - Dig It: Market Garden
        • Bolton Juvenile Response Team - Intergenerational Work
        • ELAC - Poetry and Rap Workshops
        • Dorset Youth and Community Service - Young parents and reading
        • Outward Bound Trust - Induction
        • Outward Bound Trust - Adventure and Challenge
        • Outward Bound Trust - Team and Leadership Development
        • A day out at the National Festival of Music for Youth
        • A Passage to India
        • And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times?
        • Bronze DofE SEN Residential
        • Cross curricular day - Lancaster Secondary School
        • Outward Bound Trust - First Challenge
        • Inclusion outside the classroom
        • Postcard Project
        • SEN Sailing and Swimming
        • Shared Lesson
        • The Heritage Lottery Funded Living Heritage Project
        • The Icing on the cake - end Year 7 residential
        • Visit to local church organ
        • Water, Materials and Sound
        • Challenging Space
        • Outside for All
        • Spaces to Grow
        • London Electricity Award Prioject
        • Get Growing
        • Education Department, Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
        • Annual Student Holocaust Week
        • Breaking Down Barriers
        • Buildings and Homes - Foundation Stage
        • Creativity Courtyard
        • Discovery Through Adventure
        • Enhancing school grounds
        • Environmental Education - St Benedicts Infant School, Birmingham
        • Everest Community College - learning in the school grounds
        • Exploring a Nineteenth Century Synagogue to Learn About Twenty-First Century Judaism
        • Exploring Literacy through Museums
        • Footsteps to learning
        • Freax
        • Gaining First Hand Understanding Of Christians and Muslims in Kirkless
        • Hackney Quest Youth Project - The Geffrye Museum
        • Lessons From The Holocaust
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner East Midland
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner East of England
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner London
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner North East
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner North West
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner Southeast
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner South West
        • LOtC Awards - Regional Winner Yorkshire and Humber
        • LOtC Awards - National Winner
        • Memories Make A Difference
        • Nature On Your Doorstep
        • Our Leamore, Our Goscote, Our Walsall
        • Pilgrimage at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
        • Preston Schools and Museums in Partnership
        • Residential Breaks For Reading Pupils
        • Sacred Cows, Open Inquiry - A Provider's Perspective
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        • A Comparison of Experiential Instructional Strategies Upon the Science Process Skills of Urban Eleme
        • A Longitudinal Analysis of an Out-of-School Science Experience
        • A Potential Natural Treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from a National
        • A spirit of adventure in today's society: A challenge to politicians published by the English Outdo
        • Adventure education and Outward Bound: Out-of-class experiences that make a lasting difference
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        • Amplifiers of Developmental and Negative Experiences in Organized Activities: Dosage, Motivation, Le
        • An Assessment of Activity and Practice in Schools and Local Authorities
        • An Elementary School Environmental Education Field Trip: Long-Term Effects on Ecological and Environ
        • An Evaluation of Experiential Learning and Outdoor Education school program on the Life Effectivene
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        • Champions of change - The impact of the arts on learning
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        • Children and Place: Reggio Emilia's Environment as Third Teacher. Theory Into Practice 46:40-47.
        • Children's Environmental Learning and the Use, Design and Management of Schoolgrounds. Children, Yo
        • Climbing Mount Everest? Combining career and family in outdoor education
        • Community-based outdoor education for reality of place
        • Connecting Outdoor Learning Experiences to Our Schools and Our Homes: An International Study of Tea
        • Connections and Disconnections: Traditional and Emerging Technology in Outdoor Education (abstract
        • Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development. Washington: Arts
        • Cultural Immersion or Cultural Offer?
        • Do journey style outdoor education programs lead to change? What the participants think.
        • Education and Skills Select Committee - Second Report
        • Education Outside the Classroom: An assessment of activity and practice in schools and local author
        • Effects of a Conservation Education Camp Program on Campers' Self-Reported Knowledge, Attitude and B
        • Engage, Learn, Achieve: The Impact of Museum Visits on the Attainment of Secondary Pupils in the Ea
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        • Free-Range Teenagers
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        • Gardening in Schools – A vital tool for children’s learning
        • Geography in Schools: changing practice
        • Girlguiding Association: Redefining Risk: girls shout out.
        • Grounds for Improvement Secondary Action Research Programme
        • Heading Out: Exploring the impact of outdoor experiences on young children
        • Health, Well-Being and Open Space
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        • Heritage Counts 2007
        • Improving the Understanding of Food, Farming and Land Management Amongst School-Age Children: A Lit
        • Inspiration, Identity, Learning: The Value of Museums
        • Is Contact with Nature Important for Healthy Child Development. in Children and Their Environments:
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        • Landscape and Woodland Perceptions, Aesthetics and Experience (Individual Reviews)
        • Laying the Foundations: Using the Built Environment to Teach, DCMS/DfES,2006
        • Learning Through the Outdoors for post-16 learning in Merthyr Tydfil
        • Learning to teach 'science' out of school: Non-school placements as part of a Primary PGCE Programm
        • Learning Together Evaluation Report
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        • Making Outdoor Education more academic: A case from the Victorian Certificate of Education
        • Meaning of 'connection' with the environment: findings from outdoor educational programmes in Scotl
        • Meta-analytic Research on the Outcomes of Outdoor Education
        • Museums & Education : Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance
        • Museums as Institutions for Personal Learning. Daedalus 128:259.
        • Museum-Schools: Hybrid Space for Accessing Learning. The Centre for Informal Learning and Schools.
        • National School Grounds Survey, Learning through Landscapes, 2003
        • Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways
        • Opening Doors: Learning in the Historic Environment (2004)
        • Outdoor Education an actual reality experience
        • Outdoor Education and Environmental Responsibility
        • Outdoor education for human/nature relationships
        • Outdoor Education in Scotland: A Summary of Recent Research
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        • Pedagogy of connections: Findings of a collaborative action research project in outdoor and environ
        • Positive Activities for Young People – National Evaluation Final Report
        • Project Adventure and Self Concept of Academically Talented Adolescent Boys. Physical Educator 64:11
        • Pupils' Experience and Perspective of the National Curriculum and Assessment
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        • Research Report: The Impact of HLF Funding for Curriculum-linked Learning for 5–19 year olds
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        • School Grounds in Scotland Research Report
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        • Science education in schools Issues, evidence and proposals
        • Secondary School Students' Participation in School Grounds Improvement: Emerging Findings from a St
        • Select Committee on Education and Skills First Special Report
        • Shared Scientific Thinking in Everyday Parent--Child Activity. Science Education 85:713-732.
        • Skills and thrills in outdoor environmental education: A contradiction or beautiful tension?
        • The Child in Nature.
        • The Cost of Exclusion, The Prince’s Trust, 2006
        • The curriculum in successful primary schools
        • The Effects of Environment-Based Education on Students; Critical Thinking Skills and Disposition tow
        • The Effects of Outdoor Education Programs for Children in California
        • The Effects of Primary Sources and Field Trip Experience on the Knowledge Retention of Multicultura
        • The Essential Guide to The Impact of Study Support
        • The Extent of Children's Independent Mobility and the Number of Actualized Affordances as Criteria f
        • The extra mile – how schools succeed in raising aspirations in deprived communities
        • The Impact of after-School Programs That Promote Personal and Social Skills. Cambridge: Harvard Fam
        • The impact of Museum visits on the attainment of secondary pupils in the East of England
        • The Natural Environment as a Playground for Children: Landscape Description and Analyses of a Natura
        • The Outdoor Classroom: Educational Use, Landscape Design & Management Of School Grounds. Building B
        • The value of outdoor learning: evidence from research in the UK and elsewhere. School Science Revie
        • Their words / their voices: student perspectives' of the Camp Mallana outdoor education experience.
        • Thinking through Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum School Partnership Program Summary Final Resea
        • Using Sense to Make Sense of Art: Young Children in Art Galleries. Early Years 27:159 - 170.
        • Wellbeing and the Natural Environment: A brief overview of the evidence
        • What Did You Learn at the Museum Today: Second Study. Leicester: Research Centre for Museums and Ga
        • Wild Adventure Space for Young People
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        • Wild Adventure Space for Young People: Report of Scoping Workshop and Stakeholder Forum
        • Youth Development Outcomes of the Camp Experience — Directions
        • Youth Development Outcomes of the Camp Experience — Directions: Survey instruments (2)
        • Youth Development Outcomes of the Camp Experience. USA: Philliber Research Associates, American Camp
        • Youth work: Voices of Practice
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