This resource helps teachers and schools to get children outdoors for all types of activities. Students will add art and natural beauty to their schoolground environments, and connect to their neighbourhood’s unique natural, geographic, and cultural context.
Structure and features
This resource contains 104 exciting ideas that:
- support learning across the curriculum
- promote healthy lifestyles
- encourage play and exploration during free time, before, during, and after school.
For teachers
Use the International School Grounds Month Activity Guide to support student learning in the outdoors. In particular, focus on the learning opportunities for health:
- play (page 35)
- health (page 51)
- social and emotional wellbeing (page 63)
- school yard agriculture and food (page 75).
Links and files
Teacher notes
Strand
- personal, social and community health
Focus areas
- food and nutrition
- health benefits of physical activity
- mental health and wellbeing
- active play and minor games
- fundamental movement skills
- games and sports
- lifelong physical activities.
Cross curriculum links
- Maths
- English
- The arts
- HASS
- Science.
