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Outdoor learning is a phrase that covers so many wonderful learning experiences; from daily play in the nursery yard, through to maths lessons in the school grounds, forest schools, residential [...]

When working with a new group I often start with a simple game so that we can all introduce ourselves.

“It’s liberating.. they are out of theclassroom, out of the traditional playground situation and can bechildren again”

The school is located in the grounds of a mainstream primary school and shares the millennium woodland that runs along the edge of both playgrounds.

The school is located next to a school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties and between them they share a strip of millennium woodland that runs along the edge of both of their grounds.

“You can see it on the children's faces – they are not walking to thewoodland, they‟re running. They are desperate to come here and play”

“Out here, with nothing added there is a whole wealth of opportunity... they use their imagination to bring it alive”

“To learn adventurously” but also sustainably are part of the school's aims – both supported by their use of a community woodland on their doorstep.