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Here at Sir Alexander Fleming Primary School, we are very enthusiastic about getting out and about in the great outdoors. The recent developments to our school garden, “The Allotment”, and the ongoing growth of our outdoor learning area, “The Hazels”, has meant we are now able to offer regular adventures outside to all children from Year 2 to Year 6. This complements the established, excellent Forest School sessions that the younger children already enjoy. It is wonderful to be able to now offer this to all the children at our school.

The outdoor provision is growing from strength to strength, and we are thrilled with the positive impact it is having on the children. There is a strong and growing bank of evidence highlighting the importance of experiencing and utilising the natural world in school on a regular basis. It consistently shows the positive impact it has such as:

  • increased physical activity
  • improved mental and emotional wellbeing
  • providing purposeful opportunities to strengthen social skills
  • improved focus, motivation and self- confidence
  • greater appreciation and valuing of differences
  • increased awareness and building a lifelong respect for the natural world
  • community development

The list goes on, resulting in happier, healthier children.

We draw on a range of methodologies and influences in designing our outdoor learning offer, all coming under the holistic umbrella of Outdoor Learning. These include:

Forest School

A long-term outdoor education process that is holistic and learner led. It allows children to develop themselves through healthy engagement with risk, problem-solving and self-discovery, all within a natural environment in a hands-on and thoughtful manner.

Wild Passport

This is a skill, knowledge and competency based outdoor learning curriculum. The Wild Passport is split over five separate competencies- Nature, Woodcraft, Fire, Rope, Shelter.

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) School Gardening

The Campaign for School Gardening brings the stimulation and fun of gardening directly to children in their own schools. Gardening in schools improves physical and mental well-being, enhances children’s literacy, numeracy and science learning, and helps teachers to bring innovation and creativity into their lessons. Pupils learn to work towards common goals and to anticipate, take and manage risk outdoors.

The Five Steps to Wellbeing

We work on promoting physical, emotional and mental wellbeing through regular access to nature. This has an incredibly positive effect on staff and students, and gives a boost to functioning well. We use the Five Steps to Wellbeing, as being promoted by the NHS and programmes such as the RHS’s Roots to Wellbeing. The Steps are:

  1. Connect with other people: Good relationships are important for your mental wellbeing. They can help you to build a sense of belonging and self-worth, give you an opportunity to share positive experiences, provide emotional support, and allow you to support others.
  2. Be physically active: Being active is not only great for your physical health and fitness but also improves your mental wellbeing by raising your self-esteem, helping you to set goals or challenges and achieve them, and causing chemical changes in your brain which can help to positively change your mood.
  3. Learn new skills: Learning new skills can also improve your mental wellbeing by boosting self-confidence and raising self-esteem, helping you to build a sense of purpose, and helping you to connect with others.
  4. Take notice: Reminding yourself to take notice of the present moment (mindfulness) can improve your mental wellbeing by helping you to enjoy the world around you more and understand yourself better.
  5. Give: Acts of kindness can help improve your mental wellbeing by creating positive feelings and a sense of reward, giving you a feeling of purpose and self-worth, and helping you connect with other people.

Through these diverse approaches, we are able to offer an engaging, and progressive range of activities to support each child’s development in school.

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