Outdoor Learning

January 27th, 2010

The Outdoor Learning Framework has been renamed.

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The Outdoor Learning Framework has become ‘Curriculum for Excellence through Outdoor Learning’.

It has been decided that this important forthcoming document should be renamed. This will give the document strong, clear and explicit links to the curriculum.

We feel that this is a positive development which adds clarity and builds on the growing standing of outdoor learning as a key context for delivering Curriculum for Excellence.

January 11th, 2010

Curriculum for Excellence through Outdoor Learning

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The Curriculum for Excellence through Outdoor Learning document (previously known as Outdoor Learning Framework document) will be published in the Spring of 2010. This work was directed by the Outdoor Learning Strategic Advisory Group (OLSAG) set up by the Scottish Government in August 2008. The document will contain the following:

• a Ministerial Foreword, Introduction and Contents
• a Vision and Rationale
• Outdoor Learning within Curriculum for Excellence
• Sections on progressive experiences, planning, learning and teaching outdoors, residential experiences etc.
• Health and Safety considerations
• Implementation

The guidance documentwill also be at the online resource which will also go live in Spring 2010. It has been written to enable all practitioners to offer more outdoor learning opportunities to children and young people, across all levels, in a progressive way and to maximise use of the outdoors as a learning context.

If you wish to comment on any sections of the Framework please email [email protected]

January 11th, 2010

Minister to launch guidance document

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Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning, Keith Brown MSP, is to launch Curriculum for Excellence through Outdoor Learning

This signals a significant strengthening of the position of outdoor learning as a key context for the delivery of Curriculum for Excellence. The new guidance document will provide a national vision and rationale for outdoor learning and will include sections on planning, Curriculum for Excellence, implementation, and evaluation of outdoor learning.

The video foreword by the Minister, and of course the guidance document itself, will be available at the Outdoor Learning online resource which will go live in Spring of 2010. The guidance will also be distributed nationally in document form.

After the launch of the guidance in the Spring there will be a range of events in 2010 which will allow practitioners from all over Scotland to contribute to the national conversation on outdoor learning and to share practice.

More details of the guidnace document, national events and the online resource will be posted soon.

January 8th, 2010

Health and Safety Guidance

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Learning and Teaching Scotland have engaged Adventure Activity Associates Ltd to assist with the creation of clear and accessable Health and Safety advice and guidance.

Over the next three months Adventure Activity Associates will:

· use the current Scottish Government document on Health and Safety for Educational Excursions (HSEE) to produce more concise, manageable and accessible online guidance

· produce guidance for inclusion in the Outdoor Learning Framework which reflects the positive aspects of risk as well as its proper management.

· produce supporting material for website publication

· conduct a study on the feasibility and desirability of developing an ‘all Scotland agreement’ on health and safety requirements for educational excursions, with recommendations for next steps

It is important to the project’s success that as wide a range of stakeholders as possible are aware that the work is under way.

This is an exciting project intended to increase opportunities for access to outdoor learning by young people.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the project please contact

Bob Barton - Adventure Activity Associates

Iain Peter - Adventure Activity Associates [email protected]