Outdoor learning

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

Steiner

Our Outdoor Learning sessions are driven by our principles, in which the children are free to explore as they wish. Digging for mini-beasts, mixing up mud pies, building dens, climbing trees or scrambling over logs, collecting “treasure” or simply “gazing” at the sky, trees and fields around us; do not underestimate the learning that goes on when the children experience Outdoor Learning.

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”

Frobel