02 Nov 2018
Last Thursday 1st November, Taree Public School students participated in ‘Outdoor Classroom Day’. We joined thousands of children across Australia and took our learning outdoors. Lessons learnt outdoors, whether maths, science or language, often stay with us for life. Being outdoors helps children focus, boosts creativity and imagination, and can simply be more fun.
We took the opportunity to make our beautiful school grounds our classroom. The weather was warm and the children enjoyed every minute that they were outside.
Classes participated in sketching, leaf and bark rubbings, studying flora and fauna, planting, reading, drawing and writing on the concrete, counting and graphing cars and many other activities. It was great to see the children engaged and enjoying themselves.
The idea of a Sensory Garden at the front of the school (near the second entrance) became a reality with all children contributing to making a wind chime, decorating a cup to make a plastic flower, decorating a paddle pop stick to create a wall display and painting a rock for the garden. Rosemary and Lavender have been planted, so it looks and smells great!
A big ‘Thank you’ to the parents, carers, grandparents and community members who came along and joined in the activities. We love having you in the school witnessing the great things that we do!
Di Murray