Miss Brocklesby
Leader
Mrs Wells
Leader
Mr Parsons
Volunteer/Governor
- Mrs Wells and Miss Brocklesby are our Outdoor Learning Teachers. They deliver sessions to our EYFS children every week as we believe that children thrive when learning in the outdoor environment. Children are encouraged to take risk, problem solve and build resilience whilst using all the wonderful natural resources around them. They begin to connect with the world and begin to develop a strong understanding of the world around them. This inevitably will underpin all future learning, in our aim to develop independent life – long learners.
They learn boundaries of behaviour, grow in emotional resilience, confidence, self-esteem and motivation. Setting children achievable tasks and offering appropriate support, provides the foundation for future development.
Outdoor Learning sessions are most successful when children visit the same natural area on a regular basis. A rich and flexible learning environment enables children to develop mastery which is central for high self-esteem.
Being outside and playing outside is vital to a child’s growth.
Daily exposure to natural settings increases children’s ability to focus and therefore enhances cognitive abilities.
Allows children to play safely and freely while they learn to assess risk and develop the skills to manage new situations.
Supports the development of healthy and active lifestyles.
Opportunities for children to do physical activities, freedom and movement, and promoting a sense of well-being.
Gives children contact with the natural world and offers them experiences that are unique to outdoors – such as weather and the seasons.
Helps children to understand and respect nature, the environment and the interdependence of humans, animals, plants and lifecycles.
Supports children’s problem-solving skills, nutures creativity, developing imagination, inventiveness and resourcefulness.
Provides children with space, both upwards and outwards, and places to explore, experiment, discover active and healthy, and to develop their physical capabilities.
- Mrs. Wells and Miss Brocklesby also deliver outdoor learning sessions to all our classes on rotation. Focusing on:
Developing self-regulation skills.
Coping with and learn from failure.
Building resilience (the skill of coping with risk and failure).
Gaining a sense of achievement.
Increasing motivation and concentration.
Improving problem solving.
- Develop self-regulation skills.
Cope with and learn from failure.
Build resilience (the skill of coping with risk and failure).
Gain a sense of achievement.
Increase motivation and concentration.
Improve problem solving.
