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#WalesOutdoorLearningWeek

24 - 30 April 2023

2023 Theme:
Active learning in the outdoors - encouraging healthy confident individuals
Links to the four purposes of the Curriculum for Wales

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Get outside...

.. just get out there. for a few minutes or an hour, a day or a weekend. Spend time in outdoors in nature. Engage your senses - look, listen, feel... get connected, stay connected

Outdoor Class

Learn...

Evidence shows that learning in the natural environment improves knowledge and understanding, helping us recognise the impact we have on the environment now and in the future.

Take responsibility...

... by getting involved in activities that take responsibility for nature. Make bird feeders, learn about minimum impact principles, collect litter or plastics or campaign and raise money for a cause.

Planting a Tree

Get Active...

Journey by foot, wheel or water... walk, run, climb, bike, canoe... Spending time outside improves physical & mental well being and guard against obesity, and reduce the symptoms of stress.

Hiking With Child

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Events in 2023

Events you can book onto during #WalesOutdoorLearningWeek

Castle Creatures:

family fun, learning about local wildlife and nature, with wild crafts

Chepstow Castle

Gwent Wildlife Trust

Saturday 22 April 2023

10:00 – 16:00

Guided walk, talk and survey – amphibians. Lost Peatlands Project. New people welcome.

Castell Nos HRA (RCT) Forestry car park

Monday 24 April 2023

18:00 – 21:00

Sphagnum (moss) planting. Lost Peatlands Project. Volunteering and training day.

Castell Nos HRA (RCT) Forestry car park A4233

Tuesday 25 April 2023

10:00 – 15:00

Wales Coastal Path - Your Route to Coastal Learning. Training for educators, in English.

Natural Resources Wales

Online

Wednesday 26 April 2023

16:15 – 17:45

Naturally Happy and Healthy! Using nature-based experiences to promote positive physical and mental health, in English

Online

Thursday 27 April

16:15 - 17:45

Castle Creatures:

family fun, learning about local wildlife and nature, with wild crafts

Chepstow Castle

Gwent Wildlife Trust

Sunday 22 April 2023

10:00 – 16:00

Schools on Reserve - Bring your class to explore the lagoons, ponds, reedbeds and grassland all teeming with life.

RSPB Newport

24th - 28th April 2023

09:00 – 15:00

Active learning in woodlands to help develop healthy, confident individuals.

Training for teachers

Cletwr, Ceredigion

Wednesday 26 April 2023

16:00 – 18:15

Wales Coastal Path - Your Route to Coastal Learning. Training in Welsh.

Natural Resources Wales

Online

Thursday 27 April 2023

16:15 – 17:45

To protect or develop Flintshire’s rural ‘cynefin’?

That is the question! STEM!

Training for Teachers

Halkyn, Flintshire

Monday 24 April 2023

09:30 – 3:30

Schools on Reserve - Bring your class to explore the lagoons, ponds, reedbeds and grassland all teeming with life.

RSPB Conwy

24th - 28th April 2023

09:00 – 15:00

Naturally Happy and Healthy
Training; Carmarthenshire Outdoor Schools

National Botanic Garden of Wales

Wednesday 26 April 2023

09:30 – 15:00

Naturally Happy and Healthy! Using nature-based experiences to promote positive physical and mental health, in Welsh

Online

Tuesday 25 April 2023

16:15 - 17:45

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