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CASE STUDY: Welsh reconnection

Wednesday 22 January 2020

Visit Wales has designated 2020 as the Year of Outdoors. Read how one Cardiff primary school learned to use outdoor learning across the whole curriculum

HOW TO: Make something fantastic with your plastic

Wednesday 1 January 2020

From a bug home to a full-size greenhouse, eight imaginative ideas for re-using waste plastic, courtesy of the Royal Horticultural Society

NEWS: Bayer-LEAF Education Awards

Wednesday 18 December 2019

And the winners are... great advocates for education about, and through, agriculture and horticulture

EVENTS: Learning in the living countryside

Tuesday 10 December 2019

Discover Countryside Learnings extensive range of events, mostly taking place on selected country estates

CASE STUDY: Future foresters?

Wednesday 27 November 2019

Over 130 children from four schools in Andover have been getting hands-on experience of forestry management thanks to a partnership between Andover Trees United and Englefield Estate.

RESEARCH: Learning Away evaluated

Wednesday 20 November 2019

A new study confirms the profound and transformative impact that residential experiences can have on pupils. Findings also conclude that this impact is significantly greater for vulnerable pupils.

PROGRAMME: Honey bees in schools

Wednesday 13 November 2019

The Honey Bee Programme run by School Food Matters is designed to raise awareness of the importance of honey bees and offers schools visits from enthusiastic beekeepers from the London Beekeepers Association (LBKA)

PROGRAMME: Junior Park Rangers

Wednesday 6 November 2019

The Parks Trust in Milton Keynes offers a school-based Junior Park Ranger project designed to engage young people with the natural world. It’s free to join, inclusive and non-competitive, simple to run and is fully supported by their Outdoor Learning Team!

CASE STUDY: Renewable energy on the farm

Wednesday 30 October 2019

Year 8 geography students from Imberhorne School in West Sussex visited a wind farm and a solar farm to investigate renewable energy generation

EVENT: Roast Dinner Day, Wed 13 Nov

Thursday 24 October 2019

Registration is now open for Roast Dinner Day, when hundreds of schools across the country will open their doors to grandparents, toddlers and everyone in between to share a delicious and healthy lunch. Sign up for your free resource pack

NEWS: Planting healthy air in schools

Wednesday 16 October 2019

St Paul’s CE Primary School in Hammersmith has been rated among London's worst schools for air pollution, but now an innovative new programme is set to improve things for children and teachers alike

NEWS: Trainee teachers sold on outdoor learning

Wednesday 9 October 2019

LEAF Education inspires ITT students to use the working countryside to deliver the national curriculum for pupils of all ages

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