How safe is Outdoor Learning?
How safe is Outdoor Learning? The English Outdoor Council runs the numbers for us…. One area with which this campaign is concerned is the understanding of risk and learning to act well when faced with opportunity. Schools and Youth Activities are a rich source of learning about risks – managing them, enjoying them, making them […]
Conservatives Support Young People
Tories would create a youth-friendly society By Paul Oginsky, a youth policy adviser to Conservative leader David Cameron Youth Work Now 5 May 2009 While the government has introduced welcome initiatives, such as the youth opportunity fund and mentors in schools during its 11-year tenure, the sheer number of youth programmes that have come and […]
Campaign for Adventure
Making waves for open-air adventure | By: Bernard Adams Art Year of Outdoor Education and, as Bernard Adams reports, schools and activity centres around the country are out to make the most of it. People who run outdoor centres are inclined to let their actions speak louder than words. They prefer to get on with […]
Ian Lewis Campaign for Adventure
RSA Risk Commission Conference Judith Hackitt CBE, HSC Chair Date: 13th Nov 2007Category: National News RSA Risk Commission Conference on 31 October 2007 It seems to me that whether or not life for all of us is riskier today than it was yesterday or ten or even twenty years ago is not so much the […]
Councils embrace risky play
Councils embrace risky play By Joe Lepper Children & Young People Now 26 May 2009 Councils are ignoring the so called "compensation culture" and investing in more adventurous play equipment as part of the £235m England wide revamp of play facilities.
Risk and Regulation Advisory Council
Risk and Regulation Advisory Council Today the BERR announced its much awaited guide to risk and risk culture in the UK. The Dept for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform [BERR] today has called on us all to review our attitude to risk saying that the payoff needs to be a part of the understanding and […]
No risk, no life. Know risk, know life.
No risk, no life. Know risk, know life. By Ian Lewis, Campaign Coordinator Life is best lived from a place of exploration, new experience and adventure. This week, 16th – 23rd May, 2009, is Outdoor Adventure Week. This week all schools, clubs, families, individuals and communities are invited to join the nation in an experience […]
Campaign gets royal seal of approval
Times Educational Supplement, Jon Slater
Cottonwool Kids
'Cottonwool kids' denied access to countryside, warns Natural England Wild places are out of bounds to a generation of "cottonwool kids", according to a survey that found the majority of children do not play in the countryside. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5089583/Cottonwool-kids-denied-access-to-countryside-warns-Natural-England.html
More play makes better learners?
Curriculum deprives children of play opportunities By Lauren Higgs Children & Young People Now 8 April 2009 Children need more time to learn through play, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has warned. http://www.cypnow.co.uk/bulletins/Daily-Bulletin/news/897169/?DCMP=EMC-DailyBulletin