Benefits Of Outdoor Learning Highlighted By Laois Teacher

She would regularly take students outside for learning experiences.

Outdoor learning can improve problem solving, confidence and independence according to a Laois teacher. 

Rachel Rafferty was a teacher in Scoil Phadraig in Portarlington, and would aim on a weekly basis to take students outside for learning for a few hours.

During her primary teaching degree, she studied outdoor learning objectives in Norway and is currently on a career break in New Zealand.

Ms Rafferty says she sees a difference in students when they were learning outside:

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