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The Outdoor Curriculum

The Outdoor Curriculum. What is an Outdoor Curriculum?. An Outdoor Curriculum is simply using the areas outside the classroom to extend the children’s learning experience. Outdoor education can be simply described as experiential learning in the outdoors.

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The Outdoor Curriculum

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  1. The Outdoor Curriculum

  2. What is an Outdoor Curriculum? • An Outdoor Curriculum is simply using the areas outside the classroom to extend the children’s learning experience. • Outdoor education can be simply described as experiential learning in the outdoors. • It includes trips, using the school grounds and Forest School.

  3. What are the benefits to an outdoor curriculum? • Learning in the children's hands • Active • Inquiry based • Doing rather than talking • 10'000 hours in classroom • Memorable • Associative • Connecting with local environment

  4. Forest School • At Northwick Manor Primary School we use Forest School to extend the children’s experiences of the world around them. • It allows the children to put into practice what they have learnt in the classroom. • The children develop skills such as teamwork and negotiation, develop their confidence and take risks.

  5. KS2 Sensory poems Use local story settings Perform drama Norway Literacy rates From experiences Informal until 7 Literacy • EYFS & KS1 • Writing with chalk • Sound walks • Recording sounds around school • Set up an outdoor reading area • Creative writing in the outdoors • Write poetry about an experience

  6. KS2 Perimeter and Area Coordinates / Map Ratio / multiplication Flowers per sq m Data collection Cars per minute Measuring Numeracy • EYFS & KS1 • Using Maths skills to keep scores during games • Weighing and measuring natural objects • Survey of flowers on our field

  7. EYFS & KS1 Adaptation Seeds / pollination Mini-beasts Pond dipping Identification Soils and erosion Identification Science • EYFS & KS1 • Investigating living things and life cycles • Freezing and melting experiments • Investigating different materials and their properties

  8. KS2 Compass / Direction Rivers Flooding Habitats Field Trips Bishop’s Wood Black Country Museum France Malvern OEC Local area walk Geography • EYFS & KS1 • Going on a treasure hunt • Drawing maps • Using maps of the local area • Comparing your school grounds to others • Designing your dream playground • Make a huge map of the world on the playground

  9. KS2 Tudor Buildings Wattle and Daub Victorians Black Country Museum Victorian Day Dragging coal Vikings Longboat Mock invasions History • EYFS & KS1 • Doing an archaeological dig • Identifying objects and grouping into past and present • Dressing up

  10. KS2 Parachutes Bridges Buildings Flood defences Design and Technology • EYFS & KS1 • Design and build a waterproof shelter • Design and build a working mode of transport • Make your own puppets and have an outdoor puppet theatre

  11. KS2 Cathedral Sketches Tone and shadow Drawing real life Use natural materials Art and Design • EYFS & KS1 • Face painting • Art attack pictures • Andy Goldsworthy artwork • Collage using natural materials • Splatter painting • Bark rubbing

  12. EYFS & KS1 Role play stories from the Bible Celebrating Chinese New Year with a dragon dance Decorating the outdoor huts to resemble different places of worship KS2 Rangoli patterns Circle Time Awe and wonder Religious Education

  13. KS2 Games Football Hockey Cricket Netball Rounders Rugby Team-building Problem solving Relationship week Physical Education • EYFS & KS1 • Forest School • Games like rounders, cricket, football, tennis, netball • Objects for fine motor control- tweezers, chalk boards, sand and water play

  14. KS2 Christmas Carols Gheluvelt Park Voices and Visions Music • EYFS & KS1 • Outdoor musical instruments • Making xylophones out of different sized pieces of wood/plastic bottles • Bell ringing

  15. What to expect • Be prepared for just about anything!

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