Outdoor Learning is a very important and exciting part of each child's learning experience here at St John's. 

We aim to make best use of our extensive and well resourced grounds to support many areas of our curriculum. 

We also use the local environment to support the children's first hand experience learning with regular visits to the beach, the town and other walkable places such as Clevedon Court, Tennyson Down and the harbour.

Visits further afield are planned into every year group where they are relevant and make best impact on the children's understanding of the theme being studied. Recent visits have included Caerleon Historic Roman Town, The Wild Place (Bristol Zoo Project), Bristol Old Vic Theatre, British Aerospace and The Bristol Hippodrome. 

Children in Year 6 spend a week in Term 6 at Deanfield Activities Centre in the Forest of Dean, undertaking a wide range of outdoor/adventurous activities such as canoeing, den building, low and high ropes activities and many more. 

One of our most exciting resources is our well developed and very popular Forest School, run by Mrs Holland. Currently, all children in Year 4 experience the full Forest School curriculum, but the resources is also used by children in all year groups to support key aspects of the science, geography and art curriculums specifically. 

By clicking on the link below, you will be able to find out much more about how Forest School operates. 

St John's Forest School Handbook