As part of our commitment to develop pupils' personal development, real-world experiences and to further enhance their wellbeing, we are developing our curriculum to include more outdoor learning opportunities.

These include:

Art

Year 6 - plant drawing observation

Year 7 - Compton Verney art trip, focused on outdoor learning and links to 'Climate Change Collage Posters' unit

Computing

Year 6 – tracking steps and movement to support working with microbits

Year 7 - networks unit: school site and beyond. How do we access networks, internet and mobile data?

Year 8  - data science: collecting data from an outdoor environment

Design and Technology

Year 7 - timbers and their Properties: identifying deciduous and coniferous trees; Mechanisms, forces, motion and structures: observing how outdoor structures and nature withstands loads and weather.

Year 8 - sustainable Materials Investigation: identify natural and manufactured materials used outdoors; Design in the Natural World: nature-inspired biomimicry activities.

English

Year 6 - grammar, punctuation and spelling scavenger hunts and creative writing particularly linked to study of 'The Final Year': using our outdoor spaces to reflect on how nature affects our emotions.

Year 7 - recreating a scene, writing a 'relationship with nature' poem, based on our gardens, outdoor acting

Year 8 - recreating a scene, using nature to create a poem about conflict.

Food Preparation and Nutrition

All years - developing outdoor space to establish and maintain an allotment. 

French

Year 6 - using outdoor spaces for number games, running dictations and a scavenger hunt on the field to revise prepositions of places.

Year 7 - playing boules to support understanding of sports and hobbies and outdoor spaces to support understanding of directions and place.

Year 8 - using outdoor spaces to develop use of tenses, creating an outdoor market and running dictation of the school day.

Geography

Year 6 - geocaching activity

Year 8 - surveying fieldwork on and around Bredon Hill

History

Year 6 - archaeological dig.

Year 7 - Warwick Castle and Simon de Montford society event at Lenches Amphitheatre.

Year 8 - exploration of school grounds with a view to exploring the Native American concept of everything having a spirit.

Mathematics

Year 6 - mathematical treasure hunt, retrieving and reinforcing many areas of the curriculum.

Year 8 - angle bisectors and perpendicular bisectors

Physical Education

All years - embedded across the curriculum through development of key concepts in cross-country, netball, football and other sports. 

PSHE

Year 6 - teamwork games to support transition process

Religious Education

Year 6 - Stewardship: mapping school environment and link to how various religions approach stewardship/kalifah.

Year 7 - Pilgrimage: geocache activity around site.

Science

Year 6 - invertebrate hunt and plant surveys.

Year 7 - survey of plants and methods of seed dispersal.

Year 8 - sampling and surveying methods as part of ecosystems topic within school grounds and on Bredon Hill.