Restoring Our Future
What was Restoring Our Future?
Restoring Our Future was a two-year project, funded by the Ernest Cook Trust which allowed Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to work with five primary schools each year. Each year, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust delivered a free, year-long programme of activities on school sites designed to enable pupils to learn about and benefit from being in nature and to support schools in developing their outdoor learning curriculum.
The aims of Restoring Our Future
- Increased nature connectedness in children.
- Increased pro-nature and pro-environmental behaviours in children.
- Increase teacher confidence in their ability to continue to deliver outdoor learning focused on these values.
- Embedded outdoor learning, including a focus on taking action for the natural world.
Restoring Our Future schools map
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Restoring Our Future 2021-23 photographs
GWT
Jennie Scrivens
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Billy Heaney
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Laura Leaver
Billy Heaney
Billy Heaney
Laura Leaver
Billy Heaney
Billy Heaney
Billy Heaney
The children have developed their understanding of a range of environmental topics, while also increasing their vocabulary.
Before the sessions I was very hesitant to teach in the outdoors as I did not know what kind of content to teach. Now I am fully equipped to deliver a session.
Children come to school and tell us about the creatures and plants they have seen. After break and lunch the children do the same.
The children were concerned about groundskeepers mowing the grass so frequently and want to decrease litter in the school grounds.