The Global Outdoor Classroom

The Global Outdoor Classroom

Improve your own skills so you can make the most of your school's outdoor space as a powerful medium for global learning.


You will increase your pupils’ engagement and ability to identify interconnections between global concepts such as social justice, sustainable development and human rights.

Aims of the course:

  • Give you a chance to take part in activities, and consider how these activities can support deep thinking and positive change at a whole school and an individual level.
  • Give you lots of practical resource ideas.
  • Investigate the practical implications of taking learning outdoors, including looking at school grounds.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • use the outdoor space at their school as a powerful medium for global learning
  • increase your pupils' engagement in global learning
  • develop your pupils’ ability to identify interconnections between global concepts such as social justice, sustainable development and human rights.