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We believe that young people should have access to frequent, continuous and progressive experiences in the school grounds, educational visits further afield, and residentials, and that these experiences should be utilised as a tool for teaching, learning and delivering the curriculum.
This blog aims to support teaching and learning outside of the classroom.If you are interested in writing for us, please email Emily Carlill at emily.carlill@lotc.org.uk.
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Tag Archives: Mental Health
Take lessons outside to support mental health
1-7 February 2021 is Children’s Mental Health Week. Launched in 2015, by the charity Place2Be, the awareness week seeks to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health, a subject that has never been more … Continue reading
LOtC and Physical Exercise for Children with Autism
Blog Post written by Will Price, Curriculum Development Leader at a specialist autism provision school in Leicestershire. In the last decade or so, the joint disciplines of health maintenance and fitness have become a huge part of modern life, and … Continue reading
Posted in Physical Exercise
Tagged ASD, Autism, Mental Health, Physical Exercise, Physical Health
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Maximising the benefits our green spaces have for the nation’s health
As evidence continues to build about the mental health benefits of outdoor learning, and calls continue for schools to be assessed on the wellbeing of their pupils as well as their results, we bring you this re-blog from Natural England’s www.gov.uk blog … Continue reading
How Outdoor Play is Improving Children’s Mental Health
As our colleagues at Natural England join together with leaders in the health sector to discuss mental health,dementia and the natural environment, we bring you this guest post looking at mental health in children, and how outdoor play, and learning, … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellbeing, Natural Environment
Tagged Mental Health, Natural England, Wellbeing
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Building the Evidence: Outdoor Learning Improves Outcomes for Children
On 10th May Children and Young People Now Magazine published a Special Report on Outdoor Learning, including sections on evidence, policy and a range of case studies. Here we bring you an extract, will full references, by Jim Burt, Natural … Continue reading
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