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5. EXAMPLES OF CURRENT

CCSE ACTIVITIES

There are three main types of CCSE-related activities carried out in ALN settings: outdoor
education, cooking and sustainability initiatives such as recycling.

Outdoor Education is common in ALN
settings. It includes gardening, litter
picking, and walks in nature, often
linked to community connections. “Being out and about in the
Outdoor education is especially community is huge, being
beneficial for ALN learners; time outside, you know, they do love
outside is consistently used to that sensory seeking time”
regulate learners’ emotions, with one
school facilitating daily ‘wellbeing’
walks.

However, the focus of outdoor education is mainly on children’s health and wellbeing
rather than CCSE. Staff training could unlock the opportunity to provide CCSE through
outdoor education.
Whilst many learners
appreciate being
outside, some do not,
particularly in cold or
wet weather.
Therefore, activities
that bring some of

the benefits of
outdoor education
inside the classroom
would be appropriate
SELF-PORTRAITS FROM NATURAL GARDEN ITEMS
for all learners.
These could include include art (e.g. self-portraits and mark making), maths (e.g.
counting, ordering and identifying) from natural materials (e.g. apples, leaves, recycled
materials), sensory learning through tough trays with materials that would be found

outside (e.g. soil and leaves) and planting food or plants inside the classroom.
Cooking: The majority of classes that grow food as part of outdoor learning use the fruit
and vegetables they have produced to cook in lessons. Cookery is a useful tool for ALN
learners due to its hands-on nature. It also supports older learners’ independent living
progression. Cooking lessons have often progressed to sharing food with the community:
Greenfields school cook weekly with their pupils and donate the meals to a local homeless
shelter’s soup kitchen.

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