In May 2025, five teachers from our school travelled to Palermo, Italy, as part of our Erasmus+ project to explore how outdoor education can be meaningfully integrated into the curriculum.
During the mobility, we worked and collaborated with teachers from a wide range of European countries, sharing experiences, practices, and approaches to teaching and learning in outdoor settings. The course provided opportunities to discuss how outdoor environments can support curriculum delivery, wellbeing, creativity, and student engagement, and how schools can develop spaces that act as extensions of the classroom rather than separate activities.
Much of the work focused on understanding how outdoor learning can be planned, structured, and embedded within everyday teaching, while still allowing for exploration, collaboration, and student-led learning. We took part in field-based activities, reflective sessions, and group projects which helped deepen our understanding of how outdoor spaces can be used both practically and meaningfully in school life.
This mobility was fully funded through the Erasmus+ programme and has played an important role in shaping our school’s ongoing development of outdoor education, digital learning, and cross-cultural collaboration.
