OUTDOOR LEARNING: SKILLS & TOOLS

You'd be hard-pressed to find a four-year-old who has used a real hammer or screwdriver before coming to ISD. Most of our students are encountering these real-world skills for the first time when they enter Outdoor Learning.

Throughout the various stages of our outdoor learning programme, students learn practical skills that allow them to take their learning in new and exciting directions.

Working with different tools and equipment, children learn to identify and mitigate potential safety risks; build basic structures; and, perhaps most notably, their confidence and independence soars.

As children become more self-assured, we find this translates into a greater willingness to be explorative and take risks in other areas of their classroom learning.Simon Waterworth
Outdoor Learning Teacher

Working with different tools and equipment, children learn to identify and mitigate potential safety risks; build basic structures; and, perhaps most notably, their confidence and independence soars.

I have worked with so many different tools, sometimes I forget their names. My favourite is probably the froe. It has a sharp blade attached to a handle and you can use it to cut wood. I'd never seen one before I used it in Outdoor Learning.

Tess, grade 5

TOOLS IN THE OUTDOOR LEARNING GARDEN

INTEGRATED
LEARNING

AN EXTENSION OF CLASSROOM LEARNING

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NATURE &
WELLBEING

LEARNING TO CONNECT TO NATURE

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PLAY-BASED
LEARNING

LEARNING THROUGH IMAGINATION

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INTEGRATED LEARNING

NATURE & WELLBEING

PLAY-BASED LEARNING

INTEGRATED
LEARNING

NATURE &
WELLBEING

PLAY-BASED
LEARNING