Outdoor Learning is an integral part of our Health and Wellbeing curriculum at St Charles' Primary and LCR. We believe that Outdoor Learning can supplement and enrich the curriculum of our school by providing experiences which would otherwise be impossible.

All Outdoor Learning experiences serve an educational purpose, enhancing and enriching our children’s learning. Real-world learning brings the benefits of formal and informal education together and reinforces meaningful learning through acquiring knowledge and skills through real-life, practical or hands-on activities.

Our vision for Outdoor Learning is that:

• all children are participating in a range of progressive and creative outdoor learning experiences which are clearly part of the curriculum 

• we are providing regular, frequent, enjoyable and challenging opportunities for all children to learn outdoors throughout their school career and beyond

• teachers embed outdoor learning in the curriculum so that learning in the outdoor environment becomes a reality for our children.

Miss Ross and Ms Keenan devised an Outdoor Learning Framework which was piloted in 2020 and is now the foundation of our outdoor learning experiences. The Outdoor Learning Framework has been organised by level and split by stage. Within each stage there are suggested activities to cover a range of Curriculum for Excellence Experiences and Outcomes. The framework provides a progression of skills for the seven years at our school