At St Mark’s, Outdoor Learning is an inspirational process which offers all children opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem, through hands on learning experiences in a vocabulary rich environment.
When a child is confident, able to think for themselves, take risk, ask questions and communicate ideas they are ready to learn in the classroom and life.
At St Mark’s the Outdoor Learning programme helps develop:
The outdoor learning environment is a rich, dynamic, natural space that is ever changing and a perfect environment for learning and development in children (and adults) of all ages. Its value as an essential learning resource has been recognised by many pieces of research and more recently by Ofsted.
Outdoor Learning happens every week on a year group rotation. Children need to be suitably dressed for the weather so they can fully immerse themselves in the experience. Please speak to your child's class teacher to ask about it.
Sophie has over 8 years experience delivering dynamic and exciting forest school sessions to both schools and events across the country. Sophie also works closely with children who have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and from difficult backgrounds who are struggling with mainstream education. Her other skills include drama teaching, sensory and guided meditation specific to little ones, performing educational shows for children and entertaining improv walkabout at festivals. All of these alternative approaches to learning and interaction complement forest school extremely well. She is qualified to a level 3 standard and has forest school first aid training.