Landscapes for Learning: Creating Outdoor Environments for Children and Youth

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Nearly 90% of schools reported an increase in perceived quality of the environment, by staff, pupils, parents, and community. Gamification. This is optional but recommended. Challenges and games always increase motivation. Badges, points tables, challenges… The aim is to gamify the narrative through characters, challenges, plots… which will also serve to evaluate the activity and the knowledge acquired. Plan and integrate digital technologies into the curriculum to personalise education according to the needs of their students. Being the size we are we can keep our prices very competitive yet offer the high quality of a trained and time-served carpenter.

Over 83% of schools reporting that better grounds and practice led to more active play, better quality of play, more social interaction and more enjoyment of break time. Transforming playtime takes time, it takes resources and leadership and you will make mistakes. As will the children. However, every school we work with expresses the successes and impact on children as the worthwhile goal of better break and playtimes. Happier and healthier pupils, less stress on supervisors and fewer incidents for senior managers to deal with are all successful outcomes of play in school grounds. ask for advice along the way, people who have been there before you can really help you on your own journey I am a Welsh learner, and my wife Gwenllian, who also runs the business with me, is a fluent Welsh speaker. We find that being able to run the business bilingually has been a huge advantage and benefit to the business, as well as supporting the Welsh language in general. We find that customers feel a lot more comfortable speaking to us in Welsh if they wish to do so. We are very proud to be able to operate Landscapes for Learning in both Welsh and English.” The pair got in touch with the Welsh Government’s Business Wales service to enquire about available business support with growing the business. Their Business Adviser Evan Williams assisted with business planning and financial projections and referred them to further specialist skills support to explore apprenticeships and recruitment schemes.Here are Landscapes for Learning’s top tips for anyone else looking to start or grow their own business: Creativity and imagination. These are undoubtedly two of the most important tools of learning landscapes. If pupils’ imagination and creativity are to be stimulated, teachers must also make use of these qualities. Here’s why. But we also believe getting the children and young people’s views are essential too. They are the experts on the school grounds and they are the ones that know every nook and cranny, where the cold wind blows in the winter or where it gets baking hot in the summer, where there are signs of wildlife or where the older pupils dominate the space. They are the ones who will be outside the most and they, if we are honest, the ones with the best ideas for change! We believe it is vital they are properly part of the consultation process and we have loads of ideas of ways to engage them with this from the very young, to those thinking about careers and training when they leave school. At the other end of the scale we found large companies charging exorbitant prices way beyond the budgets of cash-strapped primary schools, nurseries and day care centres. This limited them to just one piece of equipment between two or three classes and parents wanting to support their children's learning at home.

Learning landscapes are a pedagogical tool that allows us to create personalised educational scenarios for our students by combining comprehension activities with symbolic worlds that encourage and harness the student’s imagination for learning (Inspiratics, n.d.). Through this tool, students can learn the different contents of the subjects in an interactive way, through a story created by the teacher, who proposes a series of activities and challenges to be solved. Moreover, as in any reality, we must make clear the rules of our Learning Landscape and remember the timing. It is important for students to know what is expected of them and when. London's school place shortage | London City Hall". 18 May 2015. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Learning through Landscapes (LtL) has provided advice, training and school grounds design across the UK for 30 years. We are the organisation that ‘wrote the books’ on school and nursery grounds use. Supported by our patron Sir David Attenborough, we deliver to many hundreds of schools and nurseries each year through funded projects or direct sales to schools and early years settings.Kinetic-body intelligence. It involves the mastery of the body itself to express ideas and feelings (actors, mimes, athletes, or dancers), and the ease of using the hands in the creation or transformation of objects (craftsmen, sculptors, mechanics, or surgeons). One of the most outstanding features of Genially is the versatility it has when it comes to teaching, allowing educational content to come to life through interactivity, animation, and content integration. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge’. Albert Einstein. Using only pressure treated timbers & galvanised screws complying with RoSPA recommendations our products are built to last in any weather and durable enough for even the most enthusiastic mud slinger!

This is a great advantage for us as teachers, too. It is true that creating this tool involves some preparation work, but once created, they allow us to free ourselves from the routine to develop more professional and creative tasks, generating classroom time to orient and conduct a more personalized follow up with students, with all the benefits this provides for their development and learning. Out focus is on changing mindsets and approaches to education – championing the outdoors as a place for formal learning and play. To this end we work at all levels – from classroom practitioner through headteacher and on to lobby our governments.Spatial intelligence. It is the ability to perceive the viso-spacial world accurately (eg. as a hunter, bodyguard, or guide) and to carry out transformations based on those perceptions (internists, architects, artists, or inventors). Having retrained as a carpenter a few years ago and having worked on a few domestic projects, Craig saw this as an opportunity to launch Landscapes for Learning. Many of our students are digital natives, and the use of digital tools like this help us to transform them from digital natives to digitally qualified. That is, Genially gives us the opportunity to instill judgement and provide knowledge so that our students are digitally judicious, critical, and competent.