Real World Real Learning

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Real World - Real Learning
Real Benefits
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Remember the first time you felt sand between
your toes?
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Made dens in dappled sunshine in your local wood?
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Or tried paddling a canoe?
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Why learn outdoors?

• Makes learning relevant and meaningful
• Inspires and change lives
• Encourages respect for the local environment
• Promotes health and wellbeing
• Develops new skills
• Raises achievement attainment
• Promotes sustainable living
• Is lots of fun

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Losing Touch with Nature

• Recent research has shown that over three
  generations there has been a significant decline
  in the way children are able to explore, play and
  discover in their local environment.
• Most young people can identify more corporate
  logos than plants, animals and birds in their own
  neighbourhood and often don't know where their
  drinking water or food comes from.

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So.whats the problem?

• School culture
• Legitimacy of outdoor learning
• Perceived threat of litigation
• Health and safety bureaucracy
• Staff confidence and competence
• Access to suitable outdoor venues
• Resource issues

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Three Journeys

• River of Words
• Growing up with Loch Leven
• SpeyGrian

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The school context

• Nursery/Primary setting
• Green Flag Eco-School
• Whole-school approach
• School grounds development
• Gradual move into active, outdoor learning
• Confidence building
• Risk-taking

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River of Words

• River of Words is an exciting
  cross-curricular project which celebrates the
  theme of water and the part it plays in our
  lives. Children from 3 12 years will be
  working with artists, writers, musicians,
  ecologists and craft-workers in this exploration
  of the relationship between people and place.

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Eyeballs and the High Andes
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Growing up with Loch Leven

• To provide opportunities for pupils (3-18), to
  have regular first hand experience of the nature
  and beauty of Loch Leven National Nature Reserve.

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Early Years

• Tufty the tufted duck
• Storyline - Robbie Robin
• - Lizzy Ladybird and Friends

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P4 P7

• Water quality of Loch Leven how we can protect
  it
• Migration distances travelled by Loch Levens
  visiting birds
• Brown Trout in the classroom
• Storyline

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S3 Onwards

• Biology water quality work
• Wild Words
• Work placements.
• Project-based learning

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Transition

• Making Connections Arts Project
• LTS Literacy Project

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What next?

• Twilight sessions
• CPD on outdoor learning
• Action research

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SpeyGrian

• SpeyGrian is an educational trust which
  promotes outdoor experiential learning through a
  unique combination of the arts, science and
  philosophy.

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Class at Sea
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I am proposing a jail break that would put
learners of all ages outdoors more often. Only
then can we attempt to teach the things that one
might imagine the Earth would teach us silence,
humility, connectedness, courtesy, beauty,
celebration, giving, restoration, obligation and
wildness. David Orr