Features – Page 8
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Case Studies
Case Study: having fun in an outdoor environment is key at St Giles Special School
Anna Young and Jakk Capewell, learning tutors at St Giles Special School in Derby, tell us how learning outside the classroom promotes positive wellbeing and mental health.
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News & Ideas
Teachers tell School Travel Organiser how visits can re-energise the ‘why’ of education
Some of our readers have been in touch to tell us how they see school visits and learning outside the classroom as key to re-engaging children after the last year.
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Case Studies
Case Study: how a treehouse at Barfield School in Surrey has transformed outdoor learning
Elizabeth Trevett, head of humanities at Barfield School in Farnham, Surrey, tells us about how they have embraced learning outside the classroom including lessons in their very own tree house.
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Interview
Interview: Eden Project co-founder on plans for a new GCSE in Natural History
The co-founder of the Eden Project, Sir Tim Smit, talks about the proposal for a GCSE in Natural History and engaging children with the wider world.
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Column
Future outdoor experiences and new natural learning evidence
Anne Hunt, of the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC), has her say on updated Government guidance and the need for children to reconnect with nature thanks to new evidence.
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Features
Experiences to promote positive mental health among your pupils
A selection of ideas to instil positive mental health and wellbeing among your students at a time when they may need it the most.
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Features
Education providers on why outdoor activities are key to reducing stress
Outdoor adventure specialists, Inspiring Learning, are encouraging more children to engage in outdoor activities as a way of helping to reduce the nation’s rising stress levels.
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Features
School trip memories: CLOtC’s Anne Hunt on experiencing living history
Dr Anne Hunt, CEO of the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, describes the importance of her trip to the Weald & Downland Living Museum.
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Column
Deputy headteacher shares future trip plans and support for outdoor education
Arthur Wood, deputy headteacher of Ashbridge Independent School in Preston, Lancashire, tells us about the trips his school has planned this year and why we must pull together to support the outdoor education sector.
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Features
How learning beyond the classroom can aid school recovery
Why moving learning beyond the classroom is so central to the recovery of schools, pupils and teachers post-pandemic.
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News & Ideas
Teachers on why school trips will be invaluable to rebuilding children’s confidence
With the future looking more promising for school trips to resume, teachers have spoken about how school visits and learning outside the classroom can help children after a disjointed time away.
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News & Ideas
Explorer Ed Stafford on the importance of adventure for children’s self-development
British explorer Ed Stafford has spoken about why it is vital that children experience adventure outdoors and reflects on his own school trips as a youngster.
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Features
School trip memories: School Travel Forum’s CEO shares two of her own very special trips
Gill Harvey, CEO of the School Travel Forum, explains why two of her school trips as a child stand out as the most rewarding.
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Features
Online resources from attractions and providers to help with home schooling
To help teachers and parents adapt to home schooling children, we have put together some great resources to help the learning continue.
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Features
School trip memories: how one teacher uncovered Belgium’s many highlights
Amanda Lynott, assistant headteacher at The Cottesloe School in Wing, Buckinghamshire, recalls an excellent trip to Ostend in Belgium from her time at school.
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Features
How the National Marine Aquarium has developed virtual learning
We spoke to Stu Higgs, the schools programme manager for the National Marine Aquarium, as well as a school about their experience of the virtual sessions.
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Features
Cumulus Outdoors on how they have adapted to support schools throughout the pandemic
Activity providers, like Cumulus Outdoors and many others, have had to adapt to changing government advice at short notice. Director of the provider, Tom Campbell-Hill, shares their approach and plans for this year.
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Features
School trip memories: chief executive of the Field Studies Council recalls a Scottish adventure
Mark Castle, chief executive of the Field Studies Council, expands on his own childhood trip to the Mull of Galloway in Scotland.
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Features
School trip memories: headteacher shares the impact of her own residential trip
We hear from Clare French, headteacher of Kendall CE Primary School in Colchester, about her residential visit to Wicken House when she was a youngster and why it had such a long-lasting impact.
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Column
The importance of outdoor education and why we must have a plan for reopening
The CEO of the UK Sailing Academy (UKSA), Ben Willows, writes about the impact of the ban on residentials and why it’s crucial there is a plan for reopening.