To aid with self evaluation of outdoor learning you might find this set of questions extracted from HGIOS4 to be helpful: outdoor-learning-how-good-is-our-school-toolkit1446560162

This has also been generated for Early Years:

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Thanks to Jaclyn at Braidbar for more ideas for outdoor activities linked to literacy and numeracy.

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At the recent CLPL a number of people requested more ideas for activities for outdoor learning.  Thanks so much to Jo from Mearns Primary who has shared work done within her school and cluster.  Click through the links below for a wealth of ideas such as these journey sticks…

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Literacy – early-level-literacy   first-level-literacy-outdoor-learning  second-level-literacy-outdoor-learning

NUmeracy – first-level-outdoor-numeracy second-level-outdoor-numeracy early-level-outdoor-numeracy

I attended a conference last week organised by Grounds for Learning and a number of useful links were shared which might be of interest both in terms of assessing risk for outdoor learning and developing the play spaces around your school:

• The HSE view of challenge and risk in education and play https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4FULp6qGQNdcVNCeDBOalFUVHM
• Risk and Challenge – developing a model for partnerships in the community – https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4FULp6qGQNdQWRMZEM1d1YzRkk
•  Routine and Expected – reducing paperwork and managing complex situations – see Going Out There ­http://www.goingoutthere.co.uk/ and https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4FULp6qGQNdVDRaV2FiWGF1RkE
• A new approach to risk assessment? – https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4FULp6qGQNdWlJHRHRtdUlLdzg and GfL resources on risk management http://www.ltl.org.uk/spaces/managingriskinschoolgrounds.php
•  Inclusion within risk and challenge  http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0048/00488145.pdf