Celebrating its 20th birthday this year is the National Trust's Guardianship Scheme, dedicated to providing outdoor learning for children by building relationships between Trust sites and schools.
The scheme, which now has links with more than 100 schools, from nursery to secondary, forms part of the National Trust's Discovery Programme and aims to:
- foster children's understanding of nature through stimulating and practical outdoor experiences
- involve children in worthwhile conservation projects
- support curriculum work.
It also helps support the Government's 'Learning Outside the Classroom' manifesto.
When signing up to the project, staff from the school and Trust collaborate to develop hands-on education programmes, using the outdoors as an extension of the classroom. Activities range from cleaning beaches and planting vegetables to exploring rock pools and hunting minibeasts.
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