acts of kindness week

Acts of Kindness Week

Use Acts of Kindness activity pack to get your whole school engaged in ways they can be more kind to their friends, community and wider world such as nature and wildlife.

Here are 3 top outdoor learning eyfs ideas :

  1. Set a time each day to do your outdoor play
  2. Make it messy and muddy – why not your outside!
  3. Stick to natural resources – less clearing up for you and more kind to the environment.

Our muddy resources support all curriculums and we use only natural resources so any school, anywhere can use our approach. Including Early Years Framework, NC, CfE, American Curriculums.

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Outdoor learning in primary schools is an essential way to bring wellbeing to the classroom.

Here are some muddy top tips to make a start in each key stage.

  • Outdoor Learning KS2 – Try taking 10 minute slots or brain breaks in between sessions. Do the Muddy Walk and Talk and just use it for gerberal discussion or chat.
  • Outdoor Learning KS1 – Try taking phonics games outside. Choose a sound and use leaves
  • Outdoor Learning EYFS – If you can make sure there is an outside space that is accessible and start to reduce the plastic and have more natural objects. Such as leaves they can write on, stones to do art with. Strip back the made plastic objects and keep natural for optimum imagnation and creative skills to be used.
  • Outdoor Learning KS2 – Try taking 10 minute slots or brain breaks in between sessions. Do the Muddy Walk and Talk and just use it for gerberal discussion or chat.
  • Outdoor Learning KS1 – Try taking phonics games outside. Choose a sound and use leaves
  • Outdoor Learning EYFS – If you can make sure there is an outside space that is accessible and start to reduce the plastic and have more natural objects. Such as leaves they can write on, stones to do art with. Strip back the made plastic objects and keep natural for optimum imagnation and creative skills to be used.

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Watch the MPT safety videos to help you practice the best outdoor learning methods. These videos are also useful for those practising forest school.

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