Whether children are at the beach learning about tides or out on the farm caring for pigs, chickens and sheep, outdoor school teaches as much as the classroom.
Beach, farm and forest school are just a few examples of types of outdoor school, and are held mostly on a weekly basis for pre-prep pupils. Regular activities in the local environment encourage a child?s desire to be active and makes them confident and engaged, developing communication skills when sharing their new discoveries with others.
5 Outdoor Schools Making The Most of Nature
Beach Outdoor School: Prebendal School in West Sussex
Beach School allows Prebendal pupils to connect the theories they learn in the classroom to their real-world experience.
At Prebendal, Beach School is a prominent feature of the school timetable and loved in equal measure by staff and pupils. Through what seems like their clumsy exploration of their local environment, children acquire an enormous amount of knowledge about the social and physical world around them, and through play they practise skills that promote their intellectual, physical, social and emotional development.
Beach school, for these pupils, is the perfect opportunity to make links between theory they?ve learned inside a classroom and connecting it to a real-life experience in nature.
Whether they?re counting shells, making maps out of seaweed, or witnessing the litter that has washed up on the beautiful shore (and thinking of their own solutions to prevent it from ...