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Learning Outdoors

This programme from Teachers TV shows how one school uses the school grounds as a valuable resource for learning across the primary curriculum, especially in numeracy. Pip Mann a Year Three teacher at Hook Primary School in Goole passionately believes in the benefits of learning outdoors.

Using the outside space within the school grounds children carry out various activities including measuring vegetables and weighing and adding up groups of potatoes, which the students have planted and grown themselves. She discusses the activities and how the children were involved in the designing and costing of building the garden. She also explains how the experience of learning outdoors can have a positive impact on overall achievement at Key Stage Two.

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