We’re calling it ‘Pushing Out The Classroom Walls’ - learning beyond the classroom.” Get your kids involved Whenever we can, we’ll take the classroom outside, allowing children experience learning alongside nature and the outdoors, where they can flourish. We also know that outdoor learning has a positive effect on children’s attitudes, interpersonal skills and academic skills. “There will be more focus on real life and relevance. “We hope this will help children be solution focused, positive members of society, who do things differently,” Emma explained. The first steps are engaging children in ways that they can relate to now and take ownership of - for instance, taking plastic free packed lunches to school. Cornwall gives the school a strong cultural identity and sense of place, and is the foundation for learning how the choices we make contribute to global issues such as climate and sustainability. Through healthy interaction, children will learn respect for each other, for their community, and beyond. Just as the building is a model for others to follow, the hope is that the visionary curriculum itself will be adopted by other schools, and Emma and the team at Kernow Learning have plans to offer their knowledge and experience to train others. The children will be taught to make a positive difference Early Years Foundation stage framework will still be there and we’ll be using the National Curriculum as the foundation for our own that we’re developing in partnership with Eden project - a first for the whole team.” Making a difference from the start This doesn’t mean that maths, English and science won’t be taught. What better home for a school that will be dedicated from day one to teaching children respect for each other and the world around them.Įmma said: “It’s an exciting partnership with the Eden Project, developing a new curriculum that connects learning, wellbeing and the natural environment. With solar panels, heat pumps, rainwater harvesting, food composting and a tree planting programme, the Department for Education has designated it a ‘pathfinder’ school - a model to improve the future of sustainable school design. The net zero carbon school is among the first in the country, designed to recover and reuse the energy generated one day to power it the next. The school is taking a focus on teaching responsibility and caring While Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery has had some delays, it has turned problem into opportunity in order to create a memorable beginning for its first pupils. It’s a juggling act of teams and individuals, visionaries and professionals of procurement and logistics, design and architecture, old ways and new thinking, all balanced against legislation and regulation.īut most of all, a responsibility and commitment to create a world of tomorrow better than the one we have today.Īnd we're getting closer and closer to a day when the doors are opened and the first pupils are welcomed in, and the seeds of a new community are well and truly sown. Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery took on that mission - along with a bold new vision to create responsible citizens of the future, in a world that is ever-changing. There are many things in day-to-day life that we take for granted, things so familiar that we lose sight of their extraordinary complexity - in establishing them, nurturing them into life, growing and maintaining them, ensuring that they are rooted firmly and so are able to serve the communities that they are a part of, long into the future. Creating a school, from scratch, is no mean feat.
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