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LUCTON SCHOOL A VIBRANT PLACE TO STUDY


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Lucton School has seen record numbers over the last five years bucking a national trend that has seen the sad closure of many local independent schools. When attributing reasons for this success, aside from small cases and dedicated teachers, a focus on community and the outdoors might be what draws parents to the school and makes the Lucton community a vibrant place to study.


There has been a great deal of research done around the benefits of learning in the outdoors. Granted, not all schools are as fortunate as we are at Lucton School, with our woodland, sports fields, and idyllic countryside, but with the return to school of children in September and no end to COVID insight, more of us are contemplating how best to use our outside spaces, with our children reaping some extra benefits and facing new challenges. One week we’re dodging gales, thunderstorms, and downpours; the next, we are slapping on the sun cream and sun hats and making sure that we stay in the shade! Next term will see the return of wellies and coats.


Often, children who struggle more within the restrictions of the classroom flourish in outdoor spaces, where they may feel less constrained and more independent in their learning and discovering. Rather than spending hours swiping at a screen, our nursery children are learning about addition by collecting conkers, in the prep school they are imagining themselves to be paleontologists as they embark on digs around the grounds to find fossils. Outdoor projects of this nature give a chance to observe the whole child in a different context and provides the children with opportunities to offer ideas and questions spontaneously rather than always responding to adult questions within the confines of the classroom.


By Middle school our students have sports a minimum of three times a week and forest school transitions in to CCF and Duke of Edinburgh awards. With a focus on targets and classroom attainment for many schools in the past, it was easy to overlook the benefits outdoor learning can bring in developing the “whole child”: in areas such as self-confidence, social skills, motivation and concentration, not to mention an improvement in language and communication skills. With a national rise in childhood obesity and sports often the casualty of government funding cuts, we still believe that physical activity in school not only improves attainment in school, but helps our students go on to develop healthy habits for life.


There are limitations to the highly managed and essentially risk-free play often found in many school environments. Children’s physical risk-taking in the outdoor environment has been linked with the potential for children to develop both confidence in themselves and the disposition to manage risk effectively. We see this in action watching our equestrian students safely and deftly navigating their ponies around the school grounds and past the pony eating monsters, or competing successfully at a national and international level with teams qualifying for the NSA championships at Hickstead, and students competing for the UK in Dressage and Wales in Endurance. It’s certainly a draw for many of our students that not only can they ride in the school day, but they can even bring their horses with them, and it’s not unusual to see ponies and riders clopping between the school buildings.


Lucton School, Lucton, Leominster. T: 01568 782000 www.luctonschool.org


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