Leadership for embedding outdoor learning within the primary curriculum - report by NCSL. This study considers a range of leadership strategies that can be employed to successfully embed the use of the outdoors in children’s learning throughout their primary school education. Within the current context of the potential for greater flexibility in curriculum design, school leaders have the opportunity to exert greater influence over their particular school’s approach. This might include a greater emphasis on learning outdoors.
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Feedback Report for the Institute for Outdoor Learning from the National Stakeholder Engagement Event (Workshop) hosted by the Independent Panel on Forestry.
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Recessions signals return of outdoor play, survey says. Outdoor play is making a come back as cash-strapped parents swap spending on DVDs and the cinema for free days out in the park, research suggests.
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HSE Working Group Report - Post AALA Regime. 28th September 2011 saw the first meeting of the HSE working group to ‘develop practical post-AALA arrangements to support the recommendation within Common Sense Common Safety’. The group is likely to meet 2 or 3 more times in order to have developed a practical way forward by the end of this calendar year.
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