Getting Out of the Classroom - Eco-Adventure in the Lakes

http://www.teachers.tv/video/25225

Follow a group of Year 9 pupils from Chessington Community College in Surrey as they go on a residential course in the Lake District to explore the natural environment.

The trip, to Castle Head Field Centre, is led by the school's director of sport, Alan Lammas, who is keen to promote a love for outdoor pursuits. For many of the pupils, it is their first experience of the British countryside.

Castle Head is part of the Field Studies Council, an educational charity committed to bringing environmental understanding to all, entertaining more than 50,000 pupils a year across 17 centres throughout the UK.

Head of the Centre Paul Bond and his team of field workers raise pupil awareness of environmental and ecological issues as they take them on a range of activities, including ghyll scrambling and canoeing.

Published: 25 March 2008

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Outdoor Learning
A Day with the RSPB
http://www.teachers.tv/video/25217
15 minutes

A Year 4 class from London experience pond dipping and bird watching at an RSPB reserve in Hertfordshire.

Find out how outdoor learning can be transferred back into the classroom when the pupils return to school.
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Getting Out of the Classroom - Outdoor Learning with Forest School

http://www.teachers.tv/video/25243

Find out how Forest School leaders work with children to encourage an appreciation of the natural world, building self-esteem and confidence by regularly visiting special woodland sites.

The Forest Schools concept originates from Scandinavia, where there has been a long tradition of encouraging very young children to play and learn outdoors.

In this programme, Year 1 pupils from Charlbury School in Oxfordshire make one of their regular visits to a local wood. They are led by their teacher Gill Senior, who has recently qualified as a Forest School practitioner.

Because Gill's pupils have been visiting these woods every fortnight since starting reception they have become unusually at home in this environment, whatever the weather.

Through child-initiated activities, we see them learning about the natural environment, handling risks and using their own initiative to solve problems and co-operate with others. We also hear from teachers who talk about the children's growing confidence and self-motivation.

Published: 27 March 2008

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Getting Out of the Classroom - Down on the Farm

http://www.teachers.tv/video/25238

Synopsis

Follow a group of Year 9 pupils from St Bartholomew's School in the rural town of Newbury as they visit the organic Rushall Farm in Berkshire.

As these pupils demonstrate, even children from rural areas can often have very little idea of countryside issues and how they relate to the food on their plate.

Recent research suggests that a generation of "concrete children" are growing up in England, with an estimated 1.1 million pupils never visiting the countryside. These children are likely to have a very limited understanding of how the food chain works.

Launched in September 2007, the Year of Food and Farming aims to change this trend by promoting a positive image of food production in Britain and enabling children to learn more about the environment through first-hand learning experiences on farms.

Published: 26 March 2008