Curious Minds

What’s Outside Matters!

Teachers from schools across Lancashire got enthusiastically into designing their outside spaces on a free CPD day on the School Environment on January 18th. Kindly hosted by Marsden Heights Community College and co-funded by Places Matter! the Architecture and Design Centre in Liverpool, Curious Minds and Curious Project 6  - this was a great free day of practical activities, networking and useable resources.. Landscape architect Gayle Souter-Brown inspired people with some great design principles and the urge to take risks on behalf of our students – maximising learning and enjoyment outside doesn’t have to be dangerous and can be massively rewarding – and affordable. Case studies from Headteacher Frances Wygladala at St Kentigern’s RC Primary School in Blackpool and from Kerry Morrison, artist, showed some very inspiring ways of developing outside spaces that deliver for students, for teachers and for the school community. Practical design exercises allowed teachers to focus the ideas they’d learnt on their own school spaces. Curious Minds is very grateful to our hosts, partners and speakers in this event.

If you want to know more check out these excellent resources:

http://www.placesmatter.co.uk/education

http://www.curiousminds.org.uk/curiousproject6/

 

What's Outside Matters from Curious Project 6 on Vimeo.