Learning Outside the Classroom

Every year we deliver our Learning Outside the Classroom workshops to schools, helping them to realise the potential of their outdoor spaces for creative learning opportunities Learning Outside the Classroom Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds. Find out more… Learning Outside the Classroom INSET Our … Read More

Learning Outside the Classroom Workshops – Outdoor Learning

Learning Outside the Classroom Workshops – Outdoor Learning

Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds Outdoor Maths With research suggesting that Covid-19 transmits significantly less in open spaces than indoors, many schools are seeing the power of Outdoor Learning – as its approaches allow children to work in “bubbles”. Our Outdoor Learning … Read More

Learning Outside the Classroom CPD – Outdoor Learning INSET

Learning Outside the Classroom CPD – Outdoor Learning INSET

The value of Learning Outside the Classroom, and the positive impacts it can have on teaching and learning, is supported by an enormous body of evidence. But as experience is just as important to theory, our experiential INSETs always provide staff with opportunities to recall and reflect on their own outdoor memories. Combining expert thinking … Read More

Learning Outside the Classroom INSET

Learning Outside the Classroom INSET

The value of Learning Outside the Classroom, and the positive impacts it can have on teaching and learning, is supported by an enormous body of evidence. But as experience is just as important to theory, our experiential INSETs always provide staff with opportunities to recall and reflect on their own outdoor memories. Combining expert thinking … Read More

Learning Outside the Classroom Opportunities in Maths and English

Learning Outside the Classroom Opportunities in Maths and English

Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds. Every year we work with schools across the UK to help realise the potential of their outdoor space/s for creative learning opportunities.  Outdoor MathsSchools’ outdoor areas offer a wealth of stimulus for learning in Literacy. Whether it’s an observational poetry … Read More

Blog: Learning Outside the Classroom

Blog: Learning Outside the Classroom

A nostalgic whim took me on a detour recently, to show my kids where I had built dens amongst trees and bracken as a dirty-kneed nine year old. It was the same spot, I told them on our approach, where my big brothers regularly rode their bikes on dirt tracks, over obstacles and down dips … Read More

Case Study: Outdoor Learning Trails – Learning Outside the Classroom

Case Study: Outdoor Learning Trails – Learning Outside the Classroom

With more and more schools looking for meaningful ways of using their outdoor areas as learning areas,  our range of tailor-made Outdoor Learning Trails is proving ever-more popular. Providing engaging and multi-sensory approaches in Maths, Literacy and Science, they have been designed to meet all budgets and are developed to support your particular needs and … Read More

Learning and Lentils – Maths Week Scotland – Jackson Kavanagh

Learning and Lentils – Maths Week Scotland – Jackson Kavanagh

I’ve made many visits to Scotland over the last couple of years, taking as creatives’ learning programmes to primary and secondary schools in Clydebank, Cumbernauld, Dundee, Dunfermline, Glasgow (lots of trips to Glasgow!), Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Langholm, Paisley, Renfrew and Troon. As part of our ambition to promote creativity in education, we’ve developed the Five C’s. … Read More

New Resource! Maths and Literacy Learning Trails

Specifically designed to bring learning to life and give pupils exciting opportunities to practise and develop their skills, our Maths and Literacy Trails feature a wealth of engaging and meaningful activities. Perfect for outdoor spaces, they can be easily adapted for indoor use on rainy days – and have been developed with differentiation in mind. Although we … Read More

Creative CPD and INSETs for Teachers

Creative CPD and INSETs for Teachers

Our Creative Teacher CPD programmes and INSETs, which have been delivered to thousands of teachers and teaching professionals right across the UK and beyond, include full days, half days and twilights. Rooted in established pedagogical practice, they are based on tried and tested methodologies and strategies providing experiences and outcomes to more than a million … Read More

Teacher CPD

Our Teacher CPD leaves you with techniques to continue inspiring pupils in innovative ways Teacher CPD and INSET’s Whole day INSET’s, Twilight sessions, or longer-term programmes exploring creative approaches to the primary and secondary curriculum, including; Creative Curriculum Development and subject specific workshops in Creative Maths and Literacy! Find out more… Teacher Training We provide … Read More