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Drive to Boost Outdoor Learning

Drive to Boost Outdoor Learning
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Key Info
  • Drive to Boost Outdoor Learning
  • Duration: 01:37
  • Schools are fearful of being sued for illness or injury, leading to less adventure and risk outside the classroom. Education experts say that children should be exposed to more risk but be able to handle it. The government in Scotland have opened a staff training centre and have asked Police and children's organisations to discuss putting risk back into children's education. This BBC News clip is published as part of BBC News Online and was first broadcast in May 2009. Please note this clip is only available in Flash.
  • Subject:

    Society Health and Development

       Topic:

    Children and Young People

  • Keywords: risk, outdoors, education, youth work, playwork, injury, risk assessment
Ideas for use in class
  • Discussion around health and safety, models of play including aspects of youth work/playwork. Links to principles and values within the children's workforce. Statistical research around the number of accidents in the home and the numbers of accidents in the outdoors/in school.
Background details
  • Clip language : English
  • Aspect ratio : 16x9

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