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Teachers TV have produced a film on ‘Outdoor learning with Forest School’ which explains more about its ethos. Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything in the video that you can use in your setting?
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'My space: Creating enabling environments for young children’ produced by Oxfordshire County Council.
- 'Creating indoor environments for young children’ webpage on the Community Playthings website.
- 'Learning outdoors in the early years’ webpage on the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment website.
- ‘The emotional environment’ from Croner-i
- 'The Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment’ from Teachthought.
- 'Educational Pioneers: Susan Isaacs, 1885-1948’ by Juliet Mickelburgh in the Early Year Foundation Stage Forum.
- 'The McMillan Sisters and the ‘Deptford Welfare Experiment’’ by Dr. Pam Jarvis of Bradford College.
- Laser Learning reading text: 'Theorist table'.
- Laser Learning reading text: 'An enabling play environment'.
- Presentation
- This presentation is called ‘Understand the environment'.
- This presentation is called ‘Checking the learning environment'.
- This presentation is called ‘Outdoor learning'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Play and the learning environment’ on the Sage Publishing website.
- The Primary National strategy produced ‘Excellence and Enjoyment: learning and teaching in the primary years’ which contains useful information for those working in primary education. Read section 2 ‘The learning environment and its impact on learning’. You may wish to read and reflect on the CPD activities.
- This report called ‘School Learning Environments: Teacher Perceptions and Future Priorities’ looks at how some schools are changing the physical environment to promote positive learning experiences.
- Surrey County Council have create this ‘Outdoor area checklist’ for a positive environment. It is aimed at the early years, but can be adapted for use in KS1 and KS2.
- Click to read ‘Early intervention: Briefing paper’ by Parliament UK
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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