North Cottesloe Primary School students among thousands to take part in Outdoor Classroom Day

by Denise S. Cahill

NORTH Cottesloe Primary School students were among 60,000 youngsters in WA who took part in Outdoor Classroom Day yesterday.

The aim of the global movement is to improve children’s health, wellbeing and academic progress through outdoor learning and play.

Nature Play WA chief executive Griffin Longley said finding ways to increase the time kids spent outdoors was increasingly important, with only 55 per cent of Australian kids playing outside everyday according to a new report.

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Nature Play WA acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation, as the custodians of the land where our team lives and works. We also acknowledge the traditional custodians throughout Western Australia and recognise the continuing connection of Indigenous people to their land, waters, sky, culture and community. We pay our respect to all Indigenous people of this land; ancestors, elders and young ones.