The Big Debate: How can outdoor learning sector boost access for all young people?
- Children's Services | Outdoor Learning
The pandemic and cost-of-living crisis has reduced access to...
Outdoor Learning
What are the different forms of outdoor learning, how are the programmes delivered, and what is their impact? View our archive of features, case studies and research.
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Outdoor centre makes adventure accessible
- Outdoor Learning
Youth group’s outdoor learning centre uses innovative...
Special Report: Adventures Outdoors
- Play | Outdoor Learning
Participation in outdoor learning is vital for the health...
Provider delivers NCS residentials enhancing pupil wellbeing
- Outdoor Learning
A growing number of studies suggest that being in green...
Farm setting boosts children’s resilience
- Early Years | Outdoor Learning
Award-winning childminding setting provides thrill-seeking...
Adventures away for 10k disadvantaged young people
- Outdoor Learning
Avon Tyrrell Outdoor Activity Centre, UK Youth’s outdoor...
Project uses storytelling to engage children with nature
- Education | Extra-curricular | Outdoor Learning
Learning project aims to “connect” up to 45,000 free school...
Outdoor summer scheme boosts young people’s wellbeing
- Youth Work | Outdoor learning | Outdoor Learning
In response to the pandemic, Kidz Konnekt ran day trips for...
Outdoor Learning Special Report
- Outdoor Learning | Education | Youth Work | Outdoor learning
Pandemic policy shifts saw many projects move outdoors to...
How Covid-19 remade children’s services
- Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Outdoor Learning
A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of...
How I Got Here: Tish Feilden
The psychotherapist and co-founder of charity Jamie’s Farm...
Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 1
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...
Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 2
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...
Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 3
- Early Years | Outdoor Learning
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...
Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: Nursery transforms outdoor space to spark imagination
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
A £150,000 investment at a Staffordshire nursery has created...
Special Report: Policy - Outdoor Learning
- Early Years | Early years education | Outdoor Learning
Research showing outdoor learning makes children happier and...
Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 5
- Early Years | Outdoor Learning
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...
Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 4
- Early Years | Outdoor Learning
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...
Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: The Valley Project helps children build a better future
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
The Valley Project based on the Holme Wood Estate in...
Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: Samara Trust schools embrace outdoor learning ethos
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
A multi-academy trust in Cheshire is helping pupils to...
Giving children a better start in life
- Early Years | Early years education | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Child poverty | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Play | Outdoor Learning
The National Lottery-funded A Better Start programme to...
Early years food: Nourishing growing minds and bodies
- Early Years | Health | Outdoor Learning
Childhood obesity continues to be a major problem across the...
Who are the new youth workers?
- Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Funding cuts mean youth workers are increasingly taking jobs...
The policy context for outdoor learning
- Education | Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Policy framework around outdoor learning in natural...
Getting out and about
- Education | Discipline and exclusions | Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Advocates of outdoor learning highlight a wide variety of...
Getting away from it all
- Education | Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Residential trips have formed a core part of youth provision...
Excellent adventures
- Education | Safeguarding in education | Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Twenty years since the Lyme Bay tragedy in which four young...
Outcomes for adolescents
- Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
A "framework of outcomes for young people", developed by The...
Careers: Outdoor education worker
- Careers | Education | Outdoor Learning
Outdoor education workers need practical skills to back up...
Good Practice
Green traineeship programme grows diversity
- Outdoor Learning
Paid placements help young people from under-represented...
Grassroots youth group tackles young people’s loneliness through pop-up clubs
- Participation | Outdoor Learning
“Pop-up” youth clubs in places where young people tend to...
Young people learn to go green for a brighter future
- Education | Outdoor Learning
Project works to improve young people's wellbeing and help...
How young people explore outdoors to thrive
- Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Residentials offer vulnerable children the chance to try new...
Young ambassadors use green spaces to bring their communities together
- Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
The national community charity's Young Green Ambassadors...
How children learn through nature
- Education | Outdoor Learning
Project seeks to improve wellbeing and create a generation...
Inspections Clinic: Retaining an 'outstanding' rating
- Inspections | Outdoor Learning
An 'outstanding' Ofsted judgment can take years of hard...
Cambridge Day Nursery
- Early Years | Outdoor Learning | Play
City-centre nursery prioritises outdoor play, with the...
Participation in Action: Creative camps help to give vulnerable young people new leadership skills
- Participation | Outdoor Learning
Charity offering personal development opportunities for...
National Citizen Service - Inspira
- Education | Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
NCS programme in the north west of England, which includes...
Woodland Nursery
- Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Education | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Outdoor Learning
London-based nursery inspired by the Forest School approach,...
Outward Bound Trust - Transitions
- Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Five-day residential that builds the communication and...
Jamie's Farm
- Education | Discipline and exclusions | Extra-curricular | Outdoor Learning
Residential project connecting young people at risk of...
How wilderness learning holds lessons in living
- Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Young people struggling to move on with their lives gain...
Skills for the Job: How to run outdoor activities
- Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Making the outdoors an everyday experience, whether for...
How outdoor learning puts young people in touch with natural world
- Play | Children's Services | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
Hastings Wild Things boosts the wellbeing of children, young...
Research
Teachers’ views on the value of outdoor residential trips
- Youth Work | Outdoor learning | Outdoor Learning
In June 2021, residential education provider Kingswood, part...
Four lessons from the pandemic about learning in natural environments
- Education | Extra-curricular | Outdoor Learning
How learning outside the classroom during the pandemic has...
Special Report: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence
- Education | Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
These summaries of key research on outdoor learning have...
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