On Outdoor Classroom Day on Thursday 17 May children and teachers in kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools, afterschool programmes, colleges and even a few universities (and lots of homeschoolers) in more than 100 countries will enjoy the experience of playing and learning outdoors. Many of them will also take home messages to parents telling them about the importance of outdoor learning and play every day. Maybe some will be encouraged to play out more at home instead of homework.
As an organisation, Outdoor People's social purpose is to get more children and families outdoors. I set up this social enterprise to find ways to change local and global cultures that prevent outdoor play and just getting outside. That's why I and my team are proud to be working with Project Dirt and with Unilever's Dirt is Good teams to lead this ever growing campaign.
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