Educational Visits LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

Within our commitment to providing a curriculum for life, all pupils will spend time learning outside of the classroom. These lessons encompass a variety of outdoor activities and focus on teaching the children key life skills by developing their self-confidence and tolerance within a range of social and community situations. All learning outside the classroom lessons will be planned around a structure based on meeting the individuals’ needs and are an integral aspect to the curriculum. Activities may include weekly educational visits to edutainment organisations such as Kidzania, farms, shopping malls, local cafes and national museums. In this way the curriculum will be enhanced through practical and fun activities such as growing fruit and vegetables, role playing a visit to the barbers, planning and then using the metro to visit a local café and using a set budget to buy key items from a local supermarket. These key activities will develop our pupils’ lifeskills by enabling them to be independent, confident, safe and successful young adults of the future.

Learning outside the classroom also encompasses the use of the learning spaces within the school grounds, such as soft play room, light and sound room, lifeskills room, library, playgrounds and outdoor learning environments immediately outside classrooms. Daily planned sessions include the use of the appropriate learning space dependent on the curriculum area. Weekly sessions will be timetabled for the use of the soft play and light and sound rooms.