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From May 26 to June 1, 2024, the teahcer, Inés Lozano held a course in Reykjavik (Iceland) called Outdoor education for growing minds.
Below there is a small summary but if you want to read the official full report, you can click here
On the first day of the course, the participants were at the reception day carrying out "ice-breaking" activities with the exchange of information about themselves and their corresponding schools and teamwork.
During the second day of the course, she began activities on sustainable health education and environmental awareness, including how to grow vegetables sustainably with few hours of light, for example. The visits that took place during this day were to Kerid Crater, Faxi Waterfall, Geysir Geyser and Gullfoss Waterfall and ended the day in the Thingvellir National Park with great importance in the history of Iceland for being where around 930 AD. Alþingi, the world's first parliament, was founded.
The next day was dedicated to explaining the environment as an educational resource, which in addition to visiting, attended two conferences titled "Good Practices in Outdoor Education – Forest Schools” by Ana Sánchez - (Forest School Consultant) and “Reflections on the Icelandic educational system” by Helmut Hinrichsen.
The next day they visited the Menntaskólinn school where they learnt about how to show environmental assets. Later on, they visited the capital Reykjavik with an Irish guide, who explained everything about the cultural and environmental heritage of the city and, to end the day, they attended a conference at the Perlan Wonders of Iceland Science Museum.
During day 5 of the course, visits were made to observe how to act as a guide abroad, as well as day 6 was dedicated to the interpretation of the elements of the landscape of these natural areas such as Djupalonssandur Bay, Arnarstapi Fishing Village, The Black Church of Budir and Mount Kirkjufell.
On the farewell day, in addition to projecting information about our school and our Erasmus project, she was able to attend the conferences “100 years of outdoor education: the experience Scout” by Hanna Rodriguez, “Outward bound” by Martyna Dąbkowska and "Course evaluation and reflection" by Ignacio Quesada.
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