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Children love outdoor learning centres, but many are being forced to close The traditional residential trip to experience climbing, camping and canoeing may never return without government action, warn experts Adventures: A residential trip is a treasured part of school  Credit: Craig Stennett When my eldest son finished primary school last year, without any of the usual final year six rituals of leaving parties, last assemblies or signing of shirts, thanks to Covid, I asked him what he had enjoyed and would remember most about his years at primary school. “Easy,” he said. “Our residen...

4:38 The New Mexico Senate last week passed Memorial 1, hoping to bring more children outdoors to learn. Eileen Everett from Environmental Education of New Mexico said their many partnerships, including with UNM Law School’s Wild Friends helped shape the legislation to bring kids’ learning out from the indoor classroom. EILEEN EVERETT: Last fall, when the students at Wild Friends selected what they really wanted to focus on this year, they picked outdoor classrooms, which seems just so timely and relevant given COVID-19 right now. Senate Memorial 1 really has two main things that it's ask...

A selection of the treats donated to Darlington Memorial Hospital FRONTLINE NHS staff have received wholesome treats thanks to an organic farm enterprise on the outskirts of Darlington. Staff, including those working on Covid-19 wards at Darlington Memorial Hospital, have been given large vegetable boxes from the young people and volunteers at the Outdoor Learning Centre in Croft-on-Tees, run by Clervaux Trust. The Trust decided to use an award of £2,000 from The Hadrian Trust -specifically to support key workers during the current crisis - to give the hospital ten large vegetable boxe...

Parkview School District Administrator Steve Lutzke described an “overwhelming” feeling of gratitude about two local residents’ decision to donate a large plot of land to the district.

UK’s Sail Training Sector on ‘Knife Edge’, Industry Body Warns 14th February 2021 Jubilee Sailing Trust’s SV Tenacious at the Cowes Small Ships Race in 2018 Credit: Max Mudie/ASTO While plans are in the offing for a phased restart of tall shipsail training and other outdoor learning activities in the UK after Easter, the sector remains on a “knife edge”. That’s the message from Andy Robinson, chief executive of the Institute for Outdoor Learning, who as Marine Industry News reports has pilloried the British Government’s guidance amid continued pandemic restrictions as “cat...