{"id":14992,"date":"2021-06-28T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=14992"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:14:27","slug":"read-outdoor-learning-has-improved-our-pupils-attainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/read-outdoor-learning-has-improved-our-pupils-attainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor learning has improved our pupils&#8217; attainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really positive article in TES by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/learningjay\">Jay Helbert&#x1f499; (@learningjay) <\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our Forest School (in the grounds of Argyll Estate) and Beach School (on the shore of Loch Fyne) provide opportunities for a blended experience. These lessons take place weekly over the course of a school term and are child-centred experiences where teachers set up learning &#8220;provocations&#8221; and options for activities ranging from den-building and mapping to creating artwork and storytelling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a bit of outdoor\u00a0learning\u00a0in school but nowhere near the 25% the second level classes are managing here. I was interested to see this maths idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>where children survey plant and animal species to gather data<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I sometimes struggle to think up second level ideas for literacy &amp; numeracy. I&#8217;ve mostly found early and first level ideas online.<\/p>\n<p>The outdoors a great stimulus for writing, reports, narrative and poetry. Talking and listening seem built in. In maths we have done a fair bit of shape &amp; measure and I can see the potential for data and related activities. It would be good to see a bank of ideas. 25% is more than once a week.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus thought, has TES Scotland become a sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\">medium<\/a> for educational blogging. I am reading a lot of good stuff on TES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really positive article in TES by Jay Helbert&#x1f499; (@learningjay) . Our Forest School (in the grounds of Argyll Estate) and Beach School (on the shore of Loch Fyne) provide opportunities for a blended experience. These lessons take place weekly over the course of a school term and are child-centred experiences where teachers set up learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1409530494279196673?s=20"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,941,1088],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-14992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-classroom","8":"tag-outdoorlearning","9":"tag-tes","10":"post_format-post-format-status","11":"kind-read","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry","15":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-3TO","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14995,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14992\/revisions\/14995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14992"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=14992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}