The value of LOtC on children’s emotional and physical well-being
This session explores how taking learning beyond the classroom can help support pupils academically and emotionally and help them settle back into school life.
Maximising your school grounds for learning and supporting children’s well-being
Featuring research into how outdoor learning environments can improve children’s academic attainment, and discussions on maximising school grounds for wellbeing alongside learning through taking lessons outdoors and increasing the quality of play opportunities available.
Taking learning outside whether at school or home
Ideas for your students to do in their own gardens/yards, on a walk, or in your school grounds. Adaptable for all primary ages, features hands-on activities from across the curriculum that can be delivered with no or few resources.
The National Curriculum Outdoors – Meet the Authors
At this online session, hear from the authors themselves how the hugely successful, series of books evolved, the research behind the content, and how educators can use these to develop the outdoor learning at their schools.
How to use outside spaces as part of your heritage and cultural learning programmes
At this heritage and culture-focused session we hear how providers have adapted their learning programmes to create ‘museums without walls’, giving schools the confidence to visit.
Using Outdoor Learning to support children with EBD (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties)
How outdoor learning can support children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, both as small group interventions and also as part of whole-class learning.
SEN Beyond the Classroom
SEN provision beyond the classroom – it’s benefits, barriers, how to overcome them and enable all children to make connections with their local surroundings and further afield.
Curriculum linked outdoor learning activity ideas
A range of curriculum-linked activities that demonstrate the potential for outdoor learning in your school grounds or immediate surroundings.
Preparing your school for outdoor learning
Practical advice and guidance of how to plan, deliver and evaluate learning experiences beyond the classroom, and examples and activities ideas from The Park Primary.
Taking your learning outdoors – EY and Primary
Two LOtC Mark schools located in very different environments – one urban, the other rural, talks about how they use their grounds and local community space to deliver the curriculum outdoors.
