Farway Primary School praised for outdoor education

Farway CE Primary School provides weekly Thimbleweed Thursdays for its nursery and reception children, prioritising outdoor learning.

The programme allows youngsters to participate in various activities outside, including maths, literacy, and collective worship.

The sessions are tailored to enhance the children's understanding of the world, as part of the statutory Early Years Curriculum.

The school believes the outdoor environment boosts children's well-being, allowing them to make use of the school's outdoor areas, including a field, mud kitchen, and garden.

The school said: "Embedding opportunities for a series of planned, quality outdoor learning experiences that are progressive and sustainable within our curriculum, has a great many advantages.

The school believes the outdoor environment boosts children's well-being (Image: supplied)

"This includes enabling the children to develop the skills of enquiry, critical thinking and reflection, as well as building positive relationships and improving self-awareness and understanding of others, to name but a few."

Recently, the children focused on learning about hedgehogs.

They discovered facts about the animal's diet, habitat, and appearance, and learnt how to make their school environment more hedgehog-friendly.

The children then took a walk in the area, collecting sticks to create their hedgehogs.

Back at school, they used clay to form the hedgehogs and added sticks to make the prickles.

The clay hedgehogs were created in the school's outdoor space.

Farway CE Primary School currently has some spaces available in its nursery and reception classes.

Parents interested in enrolling their child or taking a tour of the school can contact the school office at adminfarway@thelinkacademy.

The school is also holding a free Stay and Play session for one hour on Wednesday, November 13, at 1.30pm.

Parents are asked to inform the school if they wish to attend.