Outdoor learning takes the curriculum outdoors and into our amazing local UNESCO environment, whether that is the school grounds of the wider area.

It is very easy to be a school based in beautiful place, but at Windermere, we choose to use our environment to enhance not only our pupils academic learning, but their entire development pathway, from our youngest children of three years old, to our Sixth Form, making choices about their future lives.

Pupils who experience an outdoor learning environment are more attentive, while consistent exposure to nature decreases stress and anxiety, elevates mood and helps with emotion regulation, which all contribute to a positive learning experience. Pupils find their personal route to achievement, discovering their own strengths and potential, learning is more memorable and they participate more actively in their own education.

At Windermere School Geography becomes real, and Science is linked to the preservation and conservation of the environment. English might involve a trip to Rydal Caves to strengthen the use of ‘spooky’ adjectives or taking a poetry lesson under the old oak trees. The Outdoor Classroom is in daily use (the science explosions can be bigger out there!), with Prep School children able to enjoy the newly renovated Forest School.