Outdoor Classroom Day

Outdoor Classroom Day banner promoting 23 May and 7 November 2024 as days of celebration.  Theh photograph features a girl and a boy crouching in a school vegetable patch, wearing school uniforms and holding magnifying glasses.

Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to celebrate and inspire outdoor learning and play! Join Nature Play and thousands of schools around Australia in taking learning and play outdoors, and by celebrating on and Thursday 23 May and Thursday 7 November 2024!

What is Outdoor Classroom Day?

The Outdoor Classroom Day movement is a day to celebrate and inspire outdoor learning and play. More than just one day, our aim is to get as many children as possible playing and learning outside, every day, with a celebration of outdoor learning and play on Thursday 23 May and Thursday 7 November 2024.

Why? Outdoor learning improves children’s health, engages them with learning and leads to a greater connection with nature. Play not only teaches critical life skills such as resilience, teamwork and creativity, but is central to children’s enjoyment of childhood.  With increasing pressures on childhood, children today are too often overprotected, overscheduled, and overly attached to screens, which is why it’s more crucial than ever before to help get children outdoors.

Get Involved

It’s easy to get involved and there is something everyone can do!

If you’re a teacher, educator or school administrator and new to outdoor learning, why not use Outdoor Classroom Day to try it out? Or, if you’re already involved in outdoor learning, use the day to celebrate what you do and inspire other teachers around the world to join in.

If you’re a parent, talk to your child’s school about the importance of outdoor learning and play. Ask them how they will get involved and offer to help out on the day if they need a bit of extra support.

If you work for an organisation that cares about children, nature, education or the environment, speak to us about how you can get involved.

We've got lesson plans, posters, inspiration, hints and tips - everything you need to celebrate taking part in the amazing Outdoor Classroom Day movement!  Find out more and sign up today at: www.outdoorclassroomday.com.au

Like and follow us on Facebook to find out all the latest news, and then share your Outdoor Classroom Day story with us!

Join Us!

The campaign is led globally by ActionFunderNature Play WA and our sister organisations are proudly leading the movement in Australia!  Play for today, prepared for tomorrow.

Sign up to Outdoor Classroom Day!

 

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This wonderful sentiment from our friends at CC&K - The Creche & Kindergarten Association Limited- "Fresh air, rustling leaves, insects, glistening sunlight, and dancing shadows are just a few things that make nature such a wonderous classroom and playground 🌱☀️👒"
What wonderous things do you discover when you spend time outdoors?
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#OutdoorClassroomDayHappy Outdoor Classroom Day! Fresh air, rustling leaves, insects, glistening sunlight, and dancing shadows are just a few things that make nature such a wonderous classroom and playground 🌱☀️👒

At C&K, our curious babies and children can explore our large and leafy outdoor spaces. We celebrate and encourage outside learning and play every day 🥰🌿

Why? Appreciating, connecting, and caring for the environment and Country is beneficial to children's (and adult's) well-being! Being in nature is a wonderful mood booster 🙌

How will you take part of your day outside today? ⛅

📸 C&K Holloways Beach Community Kindergarten > asn.pulse.ly/nlml4serv9

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This wonderful sentiment from our friends at CC&K - The Creche & Kindergarten Association Limited- Fresh air, rustling leaves, insects, glistening sunlight, and dancing shadows are just a few things that make nature such a wonderous classroom and playground 🌱☀️👒
What wonderous things do you discover when you spend time outdoors? 
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#outdoorclassroomdayaustralia
#OutdoorClassroomDay

Hands-on sensory, mindfulness and construction activities were a big hit at McAuley Community School with the team from Nature Play SA for Outdoor Classroom Day Australia. What a wonderful range of learning and play experiences! 🧡💚💙

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Hands-on sensory, mindfulness and construction activities were a big hit at McAuley Community School with the team from Nature Play SA for Outdoor Classroom Day Australia.  What a wonderful range of learning and play experiences! 🧡💚💙

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Potion making combined with water ways? What a way to take learning and play outdoors! Awesome work Harwinn Family Day Care 🧡💚💙

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Potion making combined with water ways?  What a way to take learning  and play outdoors! Awesome work Harwinn Family Day Care 🧡💚💙

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La Perouse Public School getting active outdoors in learning and play for Outdoor Classroom Day Australia 🧡💚💙

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La Perouse Public School getting active outdoors in learning and play for Outdoor Classroom Day Australia 🧡💚💙

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Dayton Primary School took science into the great outdoors, and braved the toasty weather on Outdoor Classroom Day! Great work! 🧡💚💙
#outdoorclassroomdayaustralia #OutdoorClassroomDayIt was brilliant to see our Dayton Primary School students learning outdoors today for Outdoor Classroom Day! It was quite toasty 🥵 today, so kudos to our amazing science teacher, Mrs Starling, for making it possible for every class & to everyone else who ventured out of the air conditioning to learn in the great outdoors! ☀️
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Dayton Primary School took science into the great outdoors, and braved the toasty weather on Outdoor Classroom Day! Great work! 🧡💚💙 
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Thank you to Public education in Western Australia for championing Outdoor Classroom Day Australia's mission to take learning and play outdoors! We love your commitment to the movement! 🧡💚💙 ... See MoreSee Less

Thank you to Public education in Western Australia for championing Outdoor Classroom Day Australias mission to take learning and play outdoors! We love your commitment to the movement! 🧡💚💙Image attachmentImage attachment+4Image attachment

THANK YOU!
A huge thank you to the wonderful teachers and educators all around Australia who registered for Outdoor Classroom Day, and who committed to making outdoor learning and play a priority for the children in their care!

Since 2017, you've helped us grow the movement to 10,641 teachers and educators, and 1,225,874 children!
This has helped us communicate to policymakers and stakeholders the importance of outdoor play and learning for children, and just how much Aussie teachers and educators value the benefits of nature for the mental and physical health and wellbeing of our kids!
#outdoorclassroomdayaustralia
#OutdoorClassroomDay

Public education in Western Australia Department of Education, Victoria Department for Education, Children and Young People NSW Department of Education Education NT Department for Education, South Australia Queensland Department of Education

Western Australian Primary Principals' Association - WAPPA NSW Primary Principals' Association Victorian Principals Association SAPPA - South Australian Primary Principals Association Principals' Association NT - NTPA Queensland Association of State School Principals
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THANK YOU!
A huge thank you to the wonderful teachers and educators all around Australia who registered for Outdoor Classroom Day, and who committed to making outdoor learning and play a priority for the children in their care!

Since 2017, youve helped us grow the movement to 10,641 teachers and educators, and 1,225,874 children! 
This has helped us communicate to policymakers and stakeholders the importance of outdoor play and learning for children, and just how much Aussie teachers and educators value the benefits of nature for the mental and physical health and wellbeing of our kids!
#outdoorclassroomdayaustralia
#OutdoorClassroomDay

Public education in Western Australia Department of Education, Victoria Department for Education, Children and Young People NSW Department of Education Education NT Department for Education, South Australia Queensland Department of Education

Western Australian Primary Principals Association - WAPPA NSW Primary Principals Association Victorian Principals Association SAPPA - South Australian Primary Principals Association Principals Association NT - NTPA Queensland Association of State School Principals
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