OUTDOOR LEARNING AT WATERFOOT
At Waterfoot Primary School, our outdoor learning sessions provide educational experiences that offers children the opportunity to succeed and develop confidence, resilience, responsibility, independence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland environment. Our children engage in motivating and achievable activities throughout the year and in almost all weathers. Skills are progressive and activities are carefully planned into our curriculum. Children work with tools, play, learn and begin to understand the boundaries of behaviour, both physical and social in the outdoors.
The Key Stage 1 children explore the seasons!
Key Stage 1 have been exploring the changes in our woodland area over the year so far to identify similarities and differences that occur during the different seasons of the year! They have also been using natural materials to create their own works of art!
Our EYFS during their outdoor learning sessions!
Building shelters
Maple class have been building different types of shelter on large and smaller scales. They have created lean-to structures then developed our skills further creating tripod structures. Maple have also been learning to tie knots - such as a timberhitch and a tension knot - when building shelters using paracord and tarps. And after all that hard work, there's nothing better than a nice warm drink of hot chocolate back at basecamp!
